Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to pass an offer in the Senate has senior Republican officials scrambling to find a backup plan and avoid dividing primary – or, at least, one -sexy candidate.
There are increasing concerns in Georgia’s circles that if MP Margori Taylor Green, the Republican candidate who faces Democratic Senator John Osov, can hurt the party’s chances at the heart of the seat, given its division and rhetoric, seven sources from the Republican Party familiar with the issue of NBC News. Republicans look at the Battleground race as a major opportunity to expand the majority of three seats next year.
Although the operation of the KEMP would have ended mainly, many potential candidates – including Green – are now thinking about the campaigns, as they create a possible nomination competition.
However, while Republicans expect crowded preliminary elections after KEMP, chose the best choice for the party, they chose to stay outside the race, some said that KEMP and President Donald Trump still can help the field if they decide to choose a favorite.
A Republican strategic expert in Georgia said that the preliminary elections that are likely to be crowded are “a source of concern.” “But I also think there is a good opportunity, again, the president and the ruler in the same page on the same page and choose someone.”
Kembe, who is popular in Georgia, told the supporters of a donor on Monday night that he is still planning to participate in the race, and remains active in the campaign’s path and support the final candidate, according to two sources familiar with his observations.
There are also signs that Trump, Kembe and the Republican Senate campaign campaign may try to work together in the preliminary elections. Note Ketep On social media He and Trump, whose relationship stumbled after Trump’s failed attempts to cancel the 2020 elections, spoke on Monday. Kemp expressed “commitment” to work alongside Trump’s leadership and the Senate “to ensure that we have a strong Republican candidate who can win next November.”
However, it may be a unification around one candidate easier than he did, and it can be Trump-who has a date of double accuracy, giving priority to loyalists and going to his own-unimaginable way.
Indeed, nearly dozens of Republicans either have either interested in themselves or have been put forward as potential competitors to confront OSSOFF, the only democratic Senator to be nominated for his re -election in Trump in November. (Democratic Senator Gary Peters also retires in Michigan, leaving behind an open seat.) Some Republicans said that the political unknown can also come out of the private sector.
The burning of the Republican Party
Meanwhile, Green gives some Republicans in a state of heartburn because it is considered seriously running.
On Tuesday, correspondents told Capitol that she “weighs my options.” Which are Newsnation said On Monday night, after Kemp announced, “the poll shows that I can win the ruler’s preliminary elections or I can win the preliminary elections in the Senate or I can also continue to represent my area,” adding later that it has no timetable for a decision.
Some Republicans believe that Green – who built a national file and a big war as a strong ally of Trump but also has a history Promote conspiracy theories And expressing controversial comments, it will be very accurate for public voters in the state of purple battlefield.
“She can win the preliminary elections. She cannot win the general [election] In Georgia, Brian Robinson, Republican strategic expert in Georgia, said.
“That big character – that fighting character – is the one that attracts the rule, attracts loyalty and fans, but also alienates the center and activates its enemies,” Robinson later added. Robinson was doubtful that Green would nominate, noting that she already had great power at home.
He said: “The president listens to it; the spokeswoman listens to it … It falls uniquely as very strong at home with a national platform and identifies a national name.”
Senate leader John Thun, Ruby, twice from questions this week about whether Green can win general elections if the Senate candidate.
“We believe that Georgia will be able to compete,” said Thun on Tuesday. “I have no idea about who the Republican candidate will be at this stage, but as I said earlier, I encouraged me the fact that there are many Republicans interested in Georgia, both members of the House of Representatives and some state officials, who are taking a closer look at the race, and we will see how they are shackled.”
One of the national political outlets that worked on the major Republican party races expressed concern that Green Lake 2.0 will become, referring to the Republican Habib in Arizona by Trump because of the Maga accreditation papers that were the failed candidate for the party for the position of governor in 2022 and the Senate last year.
A Republican in Georgia also reported that they are concerned about the possibility of “bloody” elections that could lead to Green as a candidate for the Republican Party. While Trump won Georgia in November, more people voted in the state in favor of Kamala Harris last year than voting for Joe Biden in 2020, when Biden – a sign that it will not be easy to turn the Senate seat, especially if the Republicans choose a candidate who cannot beat equipment and independents.
“I am still ready to defeat any competitor,” said Osov, who was in his first term, on Monday.
he The donations were collected Outside the possible Green campaign for several months. He has already started collecting a major campaign account, with a campaign of $ 11.1 million on March 31.
Green, who was in her third term, is a campaign to collect strong donations itself, after it was issued at $ 8.9 million during the last electoral cycle as she is heading to re -elected in her deep area. Her home campaign raised $ 655,000 in the first quarter of a fundraising, ending March with $ 728,000 on hand, which she can use on a tour of the Senate.
“Free for all huge”
Green is one of many legislators in Georgia who now consider the Senate that Kembe does not work. A senior Republican assistant in the House of Representatives described the preliminary elections on the horizon as “huge free for all.”
Republican Party representatives Mike Collins, Body Carter and Rich McC Corc Cormek, confirmed to NBC news that they were thinking about running after Kemb’s announcement on Monday.
“Never say,” Collins said. “We will see who gets this thing, who is backward, and we will help him win.”
Carter said he is ready to finance a “some” campaign in the Senate if he decides to run, saying: “I want to do what people want to do and what God has a plan to do.”
McC Corcmick said that “he will take place on this topic” and “give it due care,” saying that he is likely to discuss his plans with Trump.
Representative Republican Rick Allen also said that he would postpone Trump when asked whether he weighs running, saying: “If President Trump wants to nominate, I will nominate. But I think this will be his decision.”
Georgia Republicans have verified many other potential candidates, including First Deputy Brian Jack, former Director of Trump Affairs-although some of the people close to him believe that watching him in a long profession at home. Ancient Warment Affairs Doug Collins, a former member of the House of Representatives who operated a failed for the Senate in 2020, as a unified possible candidate. But the Republican strategic expert in Georgia suggested that Collins was “unlikely” to run unless Trump asked him for himself.
Multiple state officials can also consider nomination, including Insurance Commissioner John King, Agricultural Commissioner Tyler Harper and Secretary of State Brad Ravenbreger. There is a blow that can appear an unknown political from the private sector.
But the possibility of a competitive primary and bruising has some Republicans looking to narrow this field. What increases the complexity of matters is that if no one has ever obtained more than 50 % of the vote in the preliminary elections, he will go to run.
“I think the delegation will talk about it too. We do not need the situation that we had when Saxpei retired,” Allen said, referring to the 2014 Senate Race after Senator Saxpe Champs, when three members of the House of Representatives left Congress after nominating him in vain.
Republican leaders have already shown a preparation for the main chamber of the Senate races. Tim Scott, Chairman of the National Republican Senate Committee and Republican Speaker, hidden former Republican Party Mike Rogers after launching his campaign in Michigan.
But it is unclear whether the Senate leaders will be able to do the same in Georgia with many officials looking to run.
“With a country like Georgia has a deep seat of prominent Republicans, it may not be a viable strategy,” said a Republican strategic expert on a possible participation of the Senate leaders. “But at this time stage, I would just say that it is very early to know that.”
With Republicans moving to the preliminary elections, they are still widely confident that they are able to defeat Ossoff in Georgia, which Trump won by two points in November.
Robinson, the Republican strategic expert in Georgia, said that the “second level” candidates will eventually have the resources necessary to launch strong campaigns, given the amount of money that is expected to flow to the mandate of the battlefield.
“Of course, Kemp was the best shot,” Robinson said. “But it can become the second level of the first degree with $ 200 million.”
