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trump georgia indictment
Aug. 17, 2023
A Pardon Won’t Save Trump If He’s Convicted in Georgia Georgia’s constitution provides that applicants to a five-member board for a pardon have served at least five years of their sentences.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Aug. 16, 2023
Trump Trial Threatens to Blow Up Georgia Republican Party It’s going to be hard for the Georgia GOP to rally behind the 2024 nominee when top state officials are also testifying against him.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
July 18, 2023
Brian Kemp Thinks Trump’s a Loser But Won’t Run for President Himself While the Georgia governor has thwarted Donald Trump several times, he seems to have his eye on a Senate seat.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 16, 2023
Trump Leads GOP Field In His Personal Hell, Georgia The first major poll from Georgia shows the former president with a big lead in a state that has handed him multiple defeats since 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 10, 2023
Rural Republicans Revolt Against School-Voucher Plans In two big red states, liberals aren’t the only ones against starving public schools to subsidize parents who have already abandoned the system.
By Ed Kilgore
How Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Trumped Justice Three years after the George Floyd protests, environmental activists are being charged as terrorists.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
early and often
Jan. 26, 2023
Brian Kemp for President Makes a Lot of Sense Georgia’s governor doesn’t have the warmest personality. But in trouncing both Donald Trump and Stacey Abrams, he showed world-class political chops.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 25, 2022
One Worrying Sign for Democrats in the Midterm Results The gubernatorial elections in Georgia and Ohio suggest that a right-wing Republican could win moderate voters in 2024 merely by not being Trump.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Nov. 9, 2022
The GOP Won’t Moderate. Just Look at Georgia. Raphael Warnock may pull off a victory, but Republicans are doubling down on extremism.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2022 midterms
Nov. 8, 2022
Why Brian Kemp Easily Defeated Stacey Abrams This Time In 2018, she became a Democratic superstar in defeat. How much has changed in four years.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 27, 2022
Will Trump Ruin Georgia Republicans Out of Spite? Trump really dislikes Governor Brian Kemp, who thwarted his primary purge attempt. But Georgia Republicans want a united front against Stacey Abrams.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 25, 2022
The Devil Went Down to Georgia and Lost Trump spent the past two years working to exile Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger from the GOP, but he couldn’t do it.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 21, 2022
Trump Faces Another Round of Humiliation in Georgia Trump hoped to get his revenge in Tuesday’s primary. Instead, his pick for governor, David Perdue, is sure to lose, and his other prospects look iffy.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 13, 2022
Mike Pence to Campaign for Fellow Trump Traitor Brian Kemp The two MAGA heretics are, in their own ways, trying to show that Trumpism without Trump has a future.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 1, 2022
Trump’s Brian Kemp Revenge Plot Has Hit a Snag David Perdue, Trump’s candidate for Georgia governor, is trailing the incumbent in the polls, and even other MAGA candidates have yet to endorse him.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Mar. 8, 2022
Trump Tries to Get Revenge on Atlanta by Busting It Up The former president has backed an effort to have Buckhead, a wealthy white neighborhood, secede from Atlanta. But he jumped into the fight too late.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Feb. 10, 2022
Governors Could Be Key to Trump’s Next Coup Attempt Trump allies are poised to win in several crucial 2022 races, and election-reform efforts may overlook the threat posed by a rogue governor.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Thinks DeSantis Owes Him Everything If the Sunshine State ingrate aspires to a political destiny independent of Trump, the former president will give him the Brian Kemp treatment.
By Ed Kilgore
Who Is Biden’s Big Voting-Rights Speech in Georgia Really For? Spurring action on a stalled bill would be tricky enough, and that’s not all the president is trying to accomplish.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Dec. 8, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
2022 midterms
Dec. 8, 2021
Trump Ignites Republican Civil War in Georgia The unprecedented primary challenge of Brian Kemp is going to get exceptionally ugly.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 elections
Dec. 7, 2021
By Zak Cheney-Rice
David Perdue Will Indeed Primary Governor Brian Kemp in Georgia: Reports The former senator was recruited to run against Kemp by Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to help purge the incumbent GOP governor.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
2022 midterms
Dec. 2, 2021
Trump Frets About Ads Attacking J.D. Vance for Attacking Him The former president’s involvement in 2022 midterm campaigns isn’t about his party — it’s strictly about him.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Dec. 1, 2021
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia Abrams will have a united Democratic Party facing Trump-divided Republicans, and perhaps a grudge rematch with voter suppressor Brian Kemp.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Oct. 28, 2021
David Perdue May Primary Trump Foe Brian Kemp in Georgia It seemed Governor Kemp had outfoxed Trump, but now the former president may have reeled in a serious challenger.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Hates Brian Kemp So Much He Mock-Endorsed Stacey Abrams The “Trump Ticket” in Georgia has no gubernatorial challenger, and that’s driving the 45th president to distraction.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Aug. 25, 2021
Trump Favorite Herschel Walker Officially Running for U.S. Senate in Georgia Walker is arguably a carpetbagger with some extra personal baggage, but he may be better known in Georgia than incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Aug. 11, 2021
Raffensperger Struggles to Get Back His MAGA Street Cred Unlike Brian Kemp, Raffensperger doesn’t have the political capital or luck in opponents to survive a Trumpian purge with right-wing posturing.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Nearly Enlisted the Justice Department in His Coup Scheme A high-ranking DOJ official wanted to urge GOP legislators to steal Biden’s win, but colleagues rebuffed him. Next time we might not be so lucky.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
June 29, 2021
Trump Says Herschel Walker Is Running for Senate If Trump isn’t just making this up, his coalition for the 2022 midterms will gain some star power, if not an assured victory.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 25, 2021
Justice Department Sues to Stop Georgia Voting Law With Republicans filibustering voting-rights legislation in Congress, the Justice Department is using litigation to go after Georgia’s notorious law.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
June 12, 2021
Brian Kemp May Be Outfoxing Donald Trump Despite Trump’s vows of vengeance against the Georgia governor, he cannot find a top-tier candidate to run against him.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
June 7, 2021
Georgia Republicans Forgo 2022 Prep to Bicker Over Past The GOP State Convention was a chance to pull together before a pivotal midterm election, but Georgia Republicans are still divided over Trump’s lies.
By Ed Kilgore
confederate monuments
May 21, 2021
Georgia Struggles With Its Giant Neo-Confederate Embarrassment Stacey Abrams wants to sandblast the carving of Confederate leaders on state-owned property. That probably won’t happen with Brian Kemp as governor.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Republicans See Disastrous Election Cycle As Something to Brag About In their deluded minds, they believe losing Georgia to Biden and the Senate to Democrats were victories stolen by their own secretary of state.
By Ed Kilgore
States Are Starting to Fix the NCAA — For the Wrong Reasons Competition, not morality, is driving legislation that allows college athletes to make some money.
By Will Leitch
Trump’s GOP Enemies Try 3 Strategies for Survival Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and Brian Kemp exhibit different ways Republican politicians are dealing with the Boss’s disdain.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterm
Apr. 28, 2021
Loeffler Begs for Trump’s Attention by Attacking Raffensperger The former senator has called for a ridiculous “investigation” of the GOP secretary of state who wouldn’t back Trump’s election coup.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 22, 2021
Georgia Republicans Wonder What to Do About Herschel Walker His indecision about a 2022 Senate race after Trump urged him to run is complicating life for other would-be senators.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia election law
Apr. 20, 2021
Trump Says Georgia Election Law Is ‘Far Too Weak’ The former president’s message to Republicans is that using election laws to screw over the opposition isn’t just acceptable – it’s mandatory.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia election law
Apr. 16, 2021
Can Suppressing Votes Save Brian Kemp? Kemp is using Georgia’s new election law to heal a breach with Trump-loving conservatives but so far has drawn only a gadfly primary opponent.
By Ed Kilgore
election coup
Apr. 14, 2021
Will Republicans Try Another Election Coup in 2024? Jonathan Last argues that 2020 could have been a dress rehearsal, and that a 2022 purge by Trump could make it work next time.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 7, 2021
Six Bad Ideas About Voting That Republicans Need to Abandon The GOP insists its efforts in Georgia and beyond aren’t about voter suppression, but its faulty assumptions are preventing real election reform.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia voting law
Apr. 1, 2021
Georgia Republicans Working Hard to Sabotage a 2022 Comeback Georgia’s GOP could be upbeat heading toward the midterms. But the voting-law debacle and a Trump purge could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 30, 2021
Georgia Trooper Claims Legislator’s Knock Raised Fears of January 6 Repeat Was Governor Brian Kemp really endangered by Park Cannon tapping on his door in hopes of watching him sign a controversial election bill?
By Ed Kilgore
Raffensperger’s Support for Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law Won’t Save Him Georgia’s secretary of state blasphemed Trump, and that’s all that matters to his fellow Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 26, 2021
What Can Democrats Do About Georgia’s Voting-Rights Restrictions? They are already going to court, and could pass preemptive legislation in Congress. But winning control of the state in 2022 is the best solution.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Republicans Take Revenge on Voting Rights After major Democratic wins, the embattled GOP passes a harsh law to claw back power.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Mar. 19, 2021
Trumpy Georgia Congressman May Help Punish Raffensperger Representative Jody Hice may give up a safe seat to become Trump’s instrument of revenge against the Georgia official who certified Biden’s win.
By Ed Kilgore
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