{"id":587806,"date":"2023-08-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/georgia-indictment-sharpens-rift-between-trump-and-the-peach-state\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:00:00","slug":"georgia-indictment-sharpens-rift-between-trump-and-the-peach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/georgia-indictment-sharpens-rift-between-trump-and-the-peach-state\/","title":{"rendered":"#Georgia indictment sharpens rift between Trump and the Peach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/voting_georgia_071023ap_trump-georgia.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Trump\u2019s indictment in a Fulton County probe this week is putting the spotlight once again on Georgia, a crucial swing state Trump lost in 2020 that could pose a hurdle for the party again in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s 2020 loss in Georgia ended the 24-year\u00a0red streak in the state, whose majority of voters had selected Republican presidential candidates since 1996.\u00a0The 2020 election cycle\u00a0also cost the party\u00a0two winnable Senate seats, and Republicans later failed to regain one of those seats in last year\u2019s midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Now, some in the GOP are worried the trend will extend to next year, when the Peach State could prove pivotal to deciding who will control the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Donald Trump has single-handedly made Georgia a competitive state and needlessly so,\u201d said former state GOP chairman John Watson, an ally to Gov. Brian Kemp (R).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real Georgia, where I believe the Georgia electorate is is consistent with the leadership of Brian Kemp and the Republican majority in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Assembly that is unabashedly conservative, however, is forward-looking, pragmatic and decent people,\u201d Watson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou only have to ask Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and Herschel Walker as to what the influence of Donald Trump is on Georgia Republicans,\u201d he added, referencing all three Republican senatorial candidates who lost their elections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump received his fourth indictment late Monday following a probe spearheaded by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over the former president and his allies\u2019 efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the indictment in Georgia nor the three others he\u2019s accumulated have shown signs of toppling Trump\u00a0\u2014 he maintains his lead over the rest of the 2024 GOP primary field\u00a0\u2014 key voting blocs in the state are split over the charges.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/client\/PollReport.aspx?g=2d4f47b8-3454-44f1-a9b3-9f10928797d5\">SurveyUSA poll commissioned for 11Alive News released this week<\/a>\u00a0found that in Georgia,\u00a058 percent of suburban voters, 36 percent of white voters and 16 percent of voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2020 called the charges fair.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 66 percent of 2020 Trump voters, 48 percent of white voters and 27 percent of suburban voters said the charges were unfair.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the polling data is not necessarily indicative of how Georgian voters will vote in the primary and general election, the SurveyUSA poll found 51 percent of respondents said Trump should end his campaign, compared to 42 percent who said he should continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That poll also underscored what the 2020 and 2022 Georgia election results have already made clear: Trump is underperforming top Republican officials in the state, like Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SurveyUSA poll found Kemp \u2014 who handily won against Trump-backed challenger Perdue in the GOP gubernatorial primary last cycle \u2014 has a 58 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval in the state. Trump had a 51 percent approval rating, while Biden had a 41 percent approval rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s no question that Trump is the weakest option right now on the Republican side,\u201d said Republican strategist Stephen Lawson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Lawson said it\u2019s \u201ccertainly a possibility\u201d that Georgia could see split-ticket voting should Trump be the GOP presidential nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a possibility that people just skip the race entirely on the ballot, but I think again, if that scenario plays out in a state as close as Georgia, it\u2019s just too early to tell,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n        The Hill Elections 2024 coverage<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The indictment inevitably pushed divisions among Republicans in Georgia to the forefront again. In response to a post from Trump\u2019s Truth <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a>, in which the former president baselessly claimed election fraud in Georgia during the 2020 election, Kemp\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianKempGA\/status\/1691483026356678660\">wrote on X<\/a>, the platform formerly known as Twitter, \u201cThe 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward \u2014 under oath \u2014 and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger in a statement also argued Georgians have \u201cmoved on\u201d from the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe voters of Georgia have already decided this issue in 2022, and they completely rejected all election deniers,\u201d Raffensperger said. \u201cThey have moved on and so have we.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alan Abramowitz, the Alben W. Barkley professor emeritus of political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at Emory University, explained he believed among the \u201crank and file\u201d Republicans, Trump is \u201cstill quite popular,\u201d while also suggesting \u201cin a general election, I think you\u2019re looking at another probably very highly competitive race.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Trump\u2019s performance in 2020 underscores a more challenging path ahead for Republicans to win Georgia in their bid to flip the White House. The former president largely underperformed in 2020, compared to his 2016 margins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Trump fared poorly even in some GOP stronghold counties in 2020,\u00a0winning\u00a0Forsyth County by 14 fewer points, 12 points fewer in Paulding County and 10 fewer points in Cherokee County,\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n<p>Political experts note Biden\u2019s win in 2020 and Trump\u2019s loss came against the backdrop of several dynamics, including, for example, suburbs near Atlanta that have steadily diversified.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s also an element of it with Republicans in those suburban counties,\u201d added Scott Buchanan, department chairman and political science professor at Georgia College &amp; State University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can look at in 2020, the down-ticket ballots in some of those suburban counties \u2014 Republicans were winning easily in the down-ticket ballots,\u201d Buchana explained, noting the margins between Trump and Biden in the White House race was a different story and sometimes much closer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miles Coleman, associate editor for Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball, explained Trump also struggled with younger voters, likely close to Atlanta, in addition to voters with higher incomes. Despite critical voting blocs drifting away from Trump, Coleman said it would be a mistake for Democrats to assume a win in Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state has definitely trended their way for sure, there\u2019s no question about that,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cBut the Democrats can\u2019t get complacent in Georgia \u2026 yes, they won those runoffs in 2021. Warnock was reelected, but, you know, those weren\u2019t landslides. Those were 50, 51 percent wins.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Republicans are warning Democrats against celebrating the latest indictments, including in Fulton County, where some say they could end up hurting the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think on the one hand, it\u2019s going to cement feelings that suburban voters already have about the former president,\u201d said Lawson, the Republican strategist. \u201cBut at the same time, the more drawn out this drama gets and the more attention that it grabs, I think it has the potential to actually backfire for Democrats because I think people may start to see just how much of a political circus it all is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4159319-georgia-indictment-sharpens-rift-between-trump-and-the-peach-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s indictment in a Fulton County probe this week is putting the spotlight once again on Georgia, a crucial swing state Trump lost in 2020 that could pose a hurdle for the party again in 2024.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s 2020 loss in Georgia ended the 24-year\u00a0red streak in the state, whose majority of voters had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/voting_georgia_071023ap_trump-georgia.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[135206,78209,135164,72472,145061],"class_list":["post-587806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-gop-presidential-primary","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-brian-kemp","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-indictment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}