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ICYMI: "Georgia needs unifier David Perdue for governor"
Georgia needs unifier David Purdue for governor
The right man for the job
By Newt Gingrich - - Monday, November 15, 2021
OPINION:
Two recent analyses have convinced me that Georgians need a unifier who can help lead the state to a better future.
I began working as a volunteer in the Georgia Republican Party in 1960 (it was virtually non-existent). After five decades of helping Georgia and the Georgia GOP, I have a deep interest in, and commitment to, a better future for the state and the party.
I am worried.
In one possible future, Stacey Abrams could win the general election as a deeply committed Big Government Socialist who the national Democratic Party has anointed as its candidate. She would be charged with doing to Georgia what Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are trying to do to Washington. That future has higher taxes, bigger bureaucracies, more gun control, and more radical education for Georgia’s children – including critical race theory and the 1619 Project’s leftwing rewriting of American history.
An Abrams governorship would violate the beliefs of most Georgians and lead to continuous fighting with the state legislature over fundamental values. Furthermore, Abrams is being pulled to the left by her national ambitions. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: “‘Stacey has a plan, and it’s only a surprise to people who haven’t paid attention,’ says an adviser who asked not to be identified to speak freely about her thinking. ‘She plans to become the first Black woman governor in the United States next year. And then run for president in 2024 if Biden does not, or in 2028 if he does.’”
Unfortunately, a second term for Gov. Brian Kemp will be equally divisive. His long war with former President Donald Trump has deeply divided the Republican Party and all conservatives. Instead of trying to reconcile with the former president and his million-plus supporters in Georgia, Mr. Kemp has followed a policy of ruthlessly purging Trump supporters and trying to move to the center at the expense of the majority of the Republican Party.
The result of Mr. Kemp’s decision to double down on his fight with President Trump has destroyed the governor’s ability to win a general election – even if Mr. Kemp somehow won the primary, he would almost certainly lose in November.
While Mr. Kemp can use the power of the governor’s office to line up a wide range of elected officials, his failure to reach out to the Trump base simply guarantees a fight between the elected officials and the people. Most Georgia conservatives will not pay attention to politicians telling them what to do.
Sadly, Mr. Kemp’s decision to prolong and intensify his fight with the most popular leader in the Georgia GOP (Trump) has virtually guaranteed that a Kemp nomination will lead to a Ms. Abrams governorship – and all the fighting and alienation that kind of radical administration would bring with it.
You don’t have to take my word for the danger of an Abrams governorship coming from a Kemp candidacy in the general election. I asked for analyses from the two best pollsters working in Georgia.
Robert Cahaly, whose Trafalgar polls were the most accurate in 2020, wrote to me, “[Kemp] has to get the confidence of a third of the Republican base back to win in the fall.”
Matt Towery, whose Insider Advantage polls rival Trafalgar in accuracy, expanded on the problem for Mr. Kemp and all Georgia Republicans. He wrote to me: “The difficulty for the GOP in Georgia is that there is a resolute and significant amount of the Trump base that will not vote for Brian Kemp in a General Election. This makes a Kemp victory against a credible African-American Democrat problematic and may well hinder the success of even a popular nominee for the Senate, such as Herschel Walker. Mid-term elections are all about turnout. And in Georgia, having an anti-Trump persona bleeds over to other candidates with that base. Suburban voters who voted Biden will flip on the issues, but the hardcore Trump base will stay resolute.”
By comparison with Mr. Kemp’s divisive strategy, we have just watched the vision of a unifier win a great victory in Virginia.
Glenn Youngkin, a business executive, took on the 40-year veteran politician and former governor, Terry McAuliffe. Mr. Youngkin ran an issue-oriented campaign focused on a better future for all Virginians. He reached out to non-traditional groups from the beginning of the campaign. He beat Mr. McAuliffe (for whom Stacey Abrams campaigned) and helped elect Virginia’s first African American woman lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears. At age six, Ms. Sears came from Jamaica, served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and is a formidable advocate of patriotism and a unified America. The Youngkin tide also helped elect Jason Miyares, the son of Cuban refugees, as the first Latino attorney general in the state. It was hard for the leftwing activists and media to brand a ticket with a white executive, an African American woman, and a Latino man as somehow racist. This unified ticket also won back control of the Virginia House of Delegates and set the stage for an aggressive reform governor.
Mr. Youngkin won in part because he managed to bring together the Trump base in rural Virginia (which gave him enormous margins of up to 81 percent in some counties) and the suburban parents who were upset about closed schools and radical left-wing theories being used to indoctrinate their children. He also attracted support from a wide range of minority voters who were motivated by concern over failing education, rising crime, and growing inflation. It was the desire for unity and a better future that led to victory.
The closest parallel Georgia has to Glenn Youngkin is David Perdue. Like Mr. Youngkin, Mr. Perdue has had a long career as a business executive and a job creator. Like Mr. Youngkin, Mr. Perdue’s natural instinct is to solve problems and bring people together. Like Mr. Youngkin, Mr. Perdue can bring together the Trump base and those Republicans, independents, and moderate Democrats who will find Ms. Abrams too radical.
Mr. Perdue is the one candidate who can defeat Ms. Abrams and help Georgia avoid critical race theory indoctrination, the teaching of the left’s radical version of history in the 1619 project, and the higher taxes and bigger bureaucracy which would be devastating to Georgia’s economic future.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/15/georgia-needs-unifier-david-purdue-for-governor/
THE OFFICE OF DONALD J. TRUMP
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
PALM BEACH, FL
MEDIA ADVISORY
I will be interviewed by Rob Schmitt tonight at 10:00PM ET on Newsmax.
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President Donald J. Trump announces his endorsement of Endorsement of Russell Fry against Congressman Tom Rice of South Carolina
Congressman Tom Rice of South Carolina, the coward who abandoned his constituents by caving to Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left, and who actually voted against me on Impeachment Hoax #2, must be thrown out of office ASAP —and we have just the man to do it! America First Champion Russell Fry has been a leading fighter on Election Integrity, is pro-Life, pro-God, pro-Gun and, very importantly, pro-LOW Taxes. As Chief Majority Whip in South Carolina, he led the charge in passing the Open Carry Act, and also succeeded with the Religion is Essential Act. Russell loves our Military and our Vets—he is strong on Border Security and Crime. Russell Fry, who is all in for the Palmetto State, has my Complete and Total Endorsement. VOTE TOM RICE OUT NOW
https://thedeskofdonaldtrump.com/endorsement-of-russell-fry/
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
The Fake News Media has done everything in their power not to report the record setting $122 million that has been raised for Save America and publicly announced last night, they hate that I broke all records.The Failing New York Times refuses to acknowledge that the power of the Trump endorsement is far stronger today than ever before—it is virtually unblemished! Our Country can never be strong again unless we have an honest, open, and fair media and sadly, our media is largely fake and corrupt. The people of our Country demand the truth!
https://thedeskofdonaldtrump.com/our-country-can-never-be-strong-again-unless-we-have-an-honest-open-and-fair-media/
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
The Fake News Media has done everything in their power not to report the record setting $122 million that has been raised for Save America and publicly announced last night, they hate that I broke all records. The Failing New York Times refuses to acknowledge that the power of the Trump endorsement is far stronger today than ever before—it is virtually unblemished! Our Country can never be strong again unless we have an honest, open, and fair media and sadly, our media is largely fake and corrupt. The people of our Country demand the truth!
https://thedeskofdonaldtrump.com/our-country-can-never-be-strong-again-unless-we-have-an-honest-open-and-fair-media/
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
So pathetic to watch the Unselect Committee of political hacks, liars, and traitors work so feverishly to alter the Electoral College Act so that a Vice President cannot ensure the honest results of the election, when just one year ago they said that “the Vice President has absolutely no right to ensure the true outcome or results of an election.” In other words, they lied, and the Vice President did have this right or, more pointedly, could have sent the votes back to various legislators for reassessment after so much fraud and irregularities were found. If it were sent back to the legislators, or if Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of Capitol security, had taken my recommendation and substantially increased security, there would have been no “January 6″ as we know it! Therefore, the Unselect Committee should be investigating why Nancy Pelosi did such a poor job of overseeing security and why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval, in that it has now been shown that he clearly had the right to do so!
https://thedeskofdonaldtrump.com/in-other-words-they-lied/
Trudy as Whoopi in Sister Act 3