At the Georgia Republican Party convention last weekend, Gov. Brian Kemp faced boos and cheers from the crowd. Since refusing to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, Kemp has been attacked from the right wing of his party by some of his constituents and former president Donald Trump.
But in an interview with WABE News, Kemp said he is not swayed by “an orchestrated course of boos from political operatives and other folks,” and thinks the convention went “as good as it could go.”
“This state is, I think, still a Republican-leaning state,” Kemp said, pointing to Republican 2020 victories in the Georgia General Assembly and the Public Service Commissioner races. “But we’ve got to stay focused and united to be able to continue to make that happen. We saw in the [Senate] runoff when people get distracted. It is not a good formula for Republicans. And I think we can all learn from that.”
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