NEW: Trump repeatedly attacks Republican Georgia Gov. Kemp at Atlanta rally, upsetting Republicans and reviving an intraparty feud three months ahead of a presidential election in a key swing state. w/@marianne_levine: https://t.co/64z64QjML1
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 4, 2024
“At a rally where his advisers wanted him to sharply attack presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and focus on Democratic policies, Trump repeatedly veered off script to attack Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in personal and increasingly aggressive terms—and seemed fixated on… https://t.co/kDGNnMdzXi
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 4, 2024
How’s that working for him?“Making the purple state likely turn blue”
— Morgan Cameron Ross (@Morgan_C_Ross) August 4, 2024
Trump: "I'd like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal." https://t.co/jftGSpR4Nb
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 4, 2024
And he really hates it when he doesn’t get the credit; or just the attention.Trump is congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin for the "great deal" he made on the prisoner swap earlier this week. "We got our people back, but boy did we make some horrible horrible deals."
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 3, 2024
I guess getting him to campaign on policy, even a little, is too much to ask?I guess stable genius Trump thinks the best way to win GA is to continue to personally attack the Republican governor and many of the other Republican elected officials in the state. pic.twitter.com/F16YSVDHME
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 4, 2024
Brian Kemp is eminently deserving of being attacked. He's every big as much a vote rigger and suppressor as Trump is. I'm all in favor of Trump kicking up a war within the Georgia Republicans who are taking up old fashioned white-supremacist politics at their most anti-democratic. While I will welcome the anti-Trumpist would-be Republican Party restorationists for this one election cycle, their past practices weren't all that much different from his. Trump is a result of dirty Republican politics going back to Nixon and accelerating under Reagan and the Bushes. They were fine with the Supreme Court and Jeb Bush's regime in Florida handing the loser the election in 2000, setting the stage for what happened with Trump. The pseudo-sainted John McCain gave them a huge assist by elevating Sarah Palin to national prominence. I have a strong feeling that if he hadn't done that Trump may have never succeeded in doing what he did, she lowered the level of presidential rhetoric to Trumpian levels.
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