As runoff nears, Trump complicates GOP case by demanding that Kemp resign
President Donald Trump demanded that Gov. Brian Kemp resign because he refused his demand to illegally overturn election results.
The attack comes on the heels of a report by Georgia’s top elections official that found an audit of more than 15,000 voter signatures in Cobb County didn’t find a single fraudulent absentee ballot, .
contradicting allegations that the mail-in voting system was rife with fraud.
The president’s attack on Kemp, calling him an “obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia,” .
further inflames an internal Republican battle between Trump’s loyalists and state GOP leaders who refute his false claims of widespread voter fraud.
And they come as U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are trying to project a united Republican front ahead of Tuesday’s runoffs against Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
Though Loeffler was appointed to the office by Kemp in December 2019, and counts him as one of her most important allies, .
she has not rushed to counter the president for fear of alienating him.
Adding to the last-minute drama is the fact that Trump is set to headline a rally in Dalton on Monday, the night before the vote