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Kemp is decidedly not pro-Trump at all and has been pretty obvious about that. In the gubernatorial race he totally shied away from even mentioning T***p. He very deftly succeeded in not antagonizing the T***p base and by doing so they could still vote for him--and they did. He tepidly endorsed Walker in the Senate runoff, but he was more or less forced to. He was definitely NOT for Walker in the Republican primary, nor did he endorse him during the November election. He was very noticeably silent about Walker until the runoff, when, being the governor, he basically HAD to endorse a Republican. The state General Assembly does still have a fair number of T***pies, though.

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He was smart enough to see the writing on the wall, and hoped that would protect him from TFG's foes, but he's every inch Republican, and we all know that there are no moderate Republicans drawing breath here or anywhere else. His "heartbeat" anti-abortion law, refusal to expand Medicaid, voter suppression rules (that mostly didn't work), and anti-woke mouthing keep him solidly in the camp of the right.

I'm hoping that the Georgia fake electors and election deniers still in D.C. will be called out and prosecuted, at least by Fani Willis.

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Nancy, you took the words right out of my mouth. Kemp may not have mentioned Frump, but he’s damn sure running his game on us here in Georgia. And yes, he had t n e voting laws changed to the point where I, a totally disabled man that’s homebound had to go through hell to get my ballot mailed to me, plus I called several times after I mailed it to make sure it had been received. Getting it was a pain in my a$$, but I finally received it less C than 10 days before the election, and runoff.

Underneath that outer shell of the Kemp that is shown to everyone is the true Governor Kemp that is going tight by TFGs playbook.

It’s that simple.

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He's doing everything he can to toss sand into the machinery, and has the gall to dole out Federal funds without mentioning that they came from Biden! One reason for our State surplus is due to the fact that relief funding came in and he banked it. Even expanding Medicaid would cost the State very little, since the Feds cover so much of it. Now, he's touting our surplus and explaining it by saying that he's been fiscally responsible.

The impediments to mail-in voting are unconscionable, but he hides it under the cloak of voting integrity, never mentioning that there has been almost zero fraud. Then factor in the Republican voter nullification laws that they've enacted. The only reason they haven't tossed out any election results is because the Republicans did quite well during the '22 election here, and he'd hesitate to monkey with Senate votes.

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