According to a Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filing, former President Donald Trump’s Save America Political Action Committee (PAC) has donated $500,000 to an effort to take down Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R).
The filing shows that Trump’s PAC donated the money to an anti-Kemp PAC called Get Georgia Right.
The PAC only had $1,202.10 on hand before Trump’s massive donation.
An ad by the Get Georgia Right slams Kemp for not doing enough to combat claims of voter fraud in the Peach State after the 2020 election.
“I led the fight to aggressively investigate all allegations of voter fraud,” Kemp says at the beginning of the ad.
“The truth is Kemp dismissed concerns about voter fraud in the 2020 election,” a narrator responds.
The ad then cuts to a clip of a Fox News host grilling Kemp on remedies for alleged voter fraud.
“As governor, you could call for a special assembly. You have not done that,” host Bill Hemmer says in the clip.
“Kemp refused to call a special session before the runoff and the widespread illegal ballot harvesting continued, electing two Democrat Senators,” the narrator says. “If Kemp can’t beat voter fraud, he won’t beat Stacey Abrams.”
Trump has endorsed one of those defeated senators, David Perdue, in his primary bid to unseat the current governor.
In December, when Perdue declared his candidacy, Trump blasted Kemp in a statement.
The former president said:
“Wow, it looks like highly respected Senator David Perdue will be running against RINO [Republican In Name Only] Brian Kemp for Governor of Georgia. David was a great Senator, and he truly loves his State and his Country.
This will be very interesting, and I can’t imagine that Brian Kemp, who has hurt election integrity in Georgia so badly, can do well at the ballot box (unless the election is rigged, of course). He cost us two Senate seats and a Presidential victory in the Great State of Georgia.”
A March poll showed Kemp with an 11-point lead over Perdue, with the former hovering at 50 percent of the primary vote among likely primary voters, and the latter at 39 percent.
If Kemp wins more than 50 percent of the vote on primary day, he will be the outright winner of the primary. If not, the top two vote-getters will head to a runoff.
The primary election day is May 24.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Brian Kemp” by Governor Brian Kemp. Background Photo “Georgia State Capitol” by DXR. CC BY-SA 4.0.
