United States: the candidate supported by Trump did not succeed in the primaries in Georgia

Atlanta, May 24, 2022: Brian Kemp has emerged victorious in the Republican nomination race for governor.

Outgoing governor, he was supported by ex-vice president Mike Pence.

REUTERS - DUSTIN CHAMBERS

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In the United States, Georgia now knows the main results of its primary on Tuesday for the midterm elections which will decide in November the composition of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives.

The ballot was held on Tuesday in this southeastern state of the country won by a hair's breadth by Joe Biden in November 2020. Georgia, where Donald Trump has been concentrating his efforts for a year and a half to try to prove that the election presidential election was “stolen” from him.

But the former president failed to elect the candidates who supported these accusations.

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with our special correspondent in Atlanta

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David Perdue quickly conceded defeat.

From the start of the count, the one for whom Donald Trump had invested 2.5 million dollars of his own campaign funds, was very largely dominated by Brian Kemp in the race for the nomination for the post of governor.

A huge snub – expected though – for the former president who had promised to bring down the outgoing governor, corrected for not having accepted to invalidate the 2020 results. For the record, in an audio recording,

, Donald Trump, then still President of the United States, asked the elected Republican in charge of the elections in the state of Georgia to "find" the ballots necessary to cancel his defeat in this key state.

Some then had dared to speak of an attempted coup d'etat.

David Perdue had Donald Trump behind him.

But Brian Kemp had the NRA, the gun lobby, or even the largest conservative Christian lobby in Georgia.

It is therefore he who will face again, as in 2018, the African-American democrat Stacey Abrams.

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Accusations of voter fraud are no longer popular in Georgia.

Most of the other candidates on the Trump list will not make it through the primary stage.

A notable exception: Herschel Walker, who won his nomination with flying colors to try to recover the seat of Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in November.

But difficult to know if he owes his victory to the support of the former president, or rather to his immense popularity inherited from his past as an American football star.

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