Trump Repeatedly Attacks Republican Gov. Kemp At Atlanta Rally

Donald Trump blasts Kamala Harris & Gov. Brian Kemp at Atlanta rally

By Tony Bruce | Tuesday, August 6, 2024 | 2 min read

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump was in Georgia on Saturday, holding a rally at the same Georgia State University arena where Vice President Kamala Harris had rallied five days earlier. Trump used the event to criticize Harris and Democratic policies, especially focusing on the Southern border and economic management.

However, Trump also harshly criticized Georgia’s popular two-term Republican governor, Brian Kemp. This move has puzzled some Georgia Republicans, who question the strategy of attacking a fellow party member in a crucial battleground state. During his speech and on social media, Trump reiterated his grievances against Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over their handling of the 2020 election, which Trump lost in Georgia by a narrow margin to Joe Biden.

Brian Robinson, a Republican strategist, commented on Trump’s rhetoric, saying, “The rhetoric that President Trump used on Saturday divides the Republican coalition. Much less the independents and others we have to persuade to bring to the Republican side. It wasn’t a good strategy. It is not going to help win Georgia. And Georgia is a gateway to the White House. If he wins here, Kamala Harris’ path gets very narrow.”​

Olivia Troye, a lifelong Republican who worked in the Trump Administration for Vice President Mike Pence, is now part of a Republicans for Harris movement. She observed, “The moderate Republican voter out there is watching this and does not identify with it. They have to be questioning right now, ‘What does this all mean?’ Why would you do this. Kemp is a successful governor. … You are seeing a lot of the party leaders come to his defense.”​​

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Kemp, who has publicly stated he did not vote for Trump in the primary, responded on social media by emphasizing his focus on winning in November and saving the country from Kamala Harris. He refrained from engaging in personal insults and encouraged Trump to do the same​.

Robinson, a veteran of many Georgia elections and former press secretary for Gov. Nathan Deal, offered some advice to the Trump campaign: “I know he doesn’t like Gov. Kemp. I know he doesn’t like the First Lady of Georgia. … The thing that is in his best self-interest is to just ignore them. Don’t talk about them. Stick to the issues and that’s the winning formula here in Georgia.”​

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