May 24, 2022: Trumps day of reckoning in Georgia
Another Tuesday, another massive set of primaries that will test Trump\u2019s grip on the GOP.\xa0\nToday\u2019s most-watched state: Georgia. For the former president, the stakes could not be higher.\nIn the gubernatorial primary, Gov. Brian Kemp faces former Sen. David Perdue. Trump \u2014 who partly blames Kemp for his loss of the state in 2020 \u2014 has bet bigly on Perdue. He recruited him to run and sunk $2.5 million of his own campaign cash into Perdue\u2019s effort. And yet, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Kemp leads Perdue by an average of 22 points.\n\u201cThe Republican base is poised to take a turn delivering Trump a stinging rebuke in a state where, during his presidency, the GOP lost two Senate seats, two House seats and the state\u2019s Electoral College votes for the first time since the mid-1990s,\u201d Steve Shepard writes in his curtain-raiser this morning.