Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won his party’s primary on Tuesday over a challenger endorsed by Donald Trump, marking the former U.S. president’s biggest defeat so far in his effort to play kingmaker ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams will face each other once again in a rematch of the 2018 race that is likely to be one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched.
Kemp easily turned back a Republican primary challenge Tuesday from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who was backed by Trump as retribution for Kemp not going along with Trump’s effort to overturn his
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