Georgia Republicans are increasingly anxious that “the party’s deepening internal divisions” and “Trump’s continued influence” will “undermine” their efforts in 2022, including the pivotal Senate race. New reporting from The Hill highlights the “high anxiety” that Trump’s impending intervention “could only serve to deepen their losses.” Unfortunately for nervous Republicans, “there’s little doubt that Trump will get involved in next year’s races in Georgia” as the former president is “fixated on the state” and looking to “exact political revenge” on top GOP officials.
Georgia Republican operatives believe the result will be “rough primaries” up and down the ballot, with everybody “going after that Trump endorsement and tearing each other apart to get it.” Party strategists fear a repeat performance of the 2020 cycle, when “the prolonged intraparty fight… contributed to the dual GOP losses in January.” One GOP consultant noted Trump has “done a real number on us already” and argued that Republicans “really can’t afford his nonsense.”
Already, primary battle lines are starting to be drawn with failed Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and Doug Collins taking early shots at each other, Trump promoting Herschel Walker, and other Republican contenders considering campaigns of their own in what could quickly become “a Wild West shootout.” One thing is clear: Georgia is becoming ground zero for the Republican civil war in 2022.
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The Hill: High anxiety over Trump in Georgia GOP
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