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Gov. Brian Kemp sought to link Stacey Abrams to the "defund the police" movement, while the Democratic candidate blamed the incumbent for rising crime rates in the state.
Kemp won his first term by a narrow 55,000-vote margin (1.4%) in 2018, which was Georgia's closest gubernatorial election since 1966. In 2022, however, pre-election forecasting showed a solid lead for Kemp throughout and he ultimately won re-election by nearly 300,000 votes (7.5%) - the largest raw vote victory for a Georgia governor since 2006.
On December 1, 2021, Abrams announced she would run again for governor of Georgia. [99] She ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on May 24, 2022, and faced Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the November 8 general election. [100] Abrams and Kemp had their first of two scheduled debates on October 17.
Though Georgia is currently a purple state at the federal level (having voted very close to the nation as a whole in Donald Trump's 2024 win, with Georgia voting for Trump by 2.3% while having two Democratic Senators), it continues to maintain a slight to moderate red lean at the state level, with Republicans holding all state seats between 5-10% in the 2022 midterms despite the year overall ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Atlanta Friday ... meeting for about 30 minutes to discuss the state of the 2024 race and the upcoming Republican debate. ...
Byron Allen, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Allen Media Group — which is the parent company of theGrio — The post Byron Allen in conversation with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey ...
No candidate in the open election on November 3 received the 50% required by Georgia law to avoid a runoff, a type of election colloquially known as a "jungle primary" [1] —Warnock received just 32.9% of the vote—and so a runoff election between Warnock and Loeffler was held on January 5, 2021, which Warnock won with 51% of the vote.
A similar dynamic is happening in Georgia, but with the party affiliations reversed. ... will be any debates in the race for Pennsylvania governor. GOP candidate Doug Mastriano, who was at the ...