Trump's PAC baselessly claims Brian Kemp's 52-point victory in Georgia governor primary was because of fraud
- Trump's PAC claimed, groundlessly, that Brian Kemp's win in Georgia was because of fraud.
- Kemp beat Trump-endorsed David Perdue in last week's governor primary, with 74% of the vote to 22%.
Former President Donald Trump's political action committee (PAC) suggested, groundlessly, that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp won his primary via fraud, returning to a familiar theme.
The claim was made despite the very clear result, in which Kemp came 52 percentage points ahead of Trump endorsee David Perdue, winning 7% to 22%.
Trump's "Save America" PAC on Tuesday posted a Substack article by former Newsmax correspondent Emerald Robinson on its news feed entitled "Something Stinks in Georgia."
The article groundlessly questions the legitimacy of Kemp's win last week against Trump-endorsed candidate David Perdue in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
"On Primary Day in Georgia, Kemp gets 74% and Perdue gets 22%. Nobody in any election in America gets 74% of the votes. Ever. It doesn't happen," Robinson writes, claiming that such a lead is all but impossible against a Trump-endorsed candidate.
"Obvious fraud."
Trump has long refused to accept the legitimacy of contests in which he has been defeated, and his allies have championed his baseless allegations. No evidence has emerged that last week's primary was marred by fraud.
Stephen Fowler, a journalist for public radio in Georgia, responded to the claim on Twitter by highlighting times that US politicians did indeed win by extremely large margins.
Ronald Reagan won the state of Utah in 1980 with 73% of the vote, Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene won Georgia's 14th Congressional district in 2020 with 74% and Trump himself won Wyoming in 2020 with 70%, Fowler noted.
Trump in 2020 he famously refused to concede to Joe Biden after his defeat in the presidential election, and has since made so-called "election integrity", the centerpiece of his campaign as he stokes rumors of a 2024 presidential bid.
In Georgia, Trump was seeking to unseat Kemp in revenge for the governor refusing to help him overturn his defeat in the state in 2020. In the secretary of state primary, Trump-endorsed candidate Jody Hice was defeated by Brad Raffensperger, who had also refused to take part in Trump's bid to overturn the election.