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Ahead of members of the Georgia Republican Party gathering for their state convention, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTomorrow, Trump\u2019s Georgia GOP allies will convene in Columbus, GA. The only thing weirder than so many extremists in one place over the course of two days is how quiet Georgia Republicans have been about their party\u2019s biggest event of the year. Maybe it\u2019s because they\u2019ve spent the last year drowning in legal bills, at odds with their own fellow MAGA governor, and ousting members of their state party\u2019s leadership team. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has yet to implement any semblance of a ground game in Georgia. While Trump blows off Georgia voters, President Biden is committed to earning Georgians\u2019 votes as he delivers a winning agenda and continues to expand his presence across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has left the Georgia GOP fractured and in disarray.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cAt the fundraiser, second vice chair David Cross said the state party needed help and had been abandoned by Kemp. \u2018I know I\u2019m going to get in trouble for this, but our general has not lifted a finger to help the Georgia GOP,\u2019 Cross said to cheers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKemp fell out with the state party over the alternate-elector plan, the party\u2019s claims of a stolen election and Shafer\u2019s support for Trump even as he slashed Kemp and other Georgia Republicans. Kemp\u2019s allies in the state legislature created a new type of political committee with no contribution limits, effectively empowering Kemp to bypass the official state party in fundraising and election spending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWatson, along with another prominent Republican, said donors were less interested now in giving to the state party because of perceptions that Trump\u2019s fraud claims suppressed Republican turnout in the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>: \u201cWith many mainstream Republicans following Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s lead and steering clear of the organization, a MAGA-friendly activist base led by former state Sen. Josh McKoon has taken the reins of the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn his watch, the party has tried to restore ties with state leaders while steering more than $1.8 million toward the legal defense of a trio of party figures charged in the Fulton County election interference case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut that hasn\u2019t quelled the feuding within the party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is making it clear he\u2019s taking Georgia voters for granted as he still has virtually no presence on the ground in a state he desperately needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cThe shift comes as President Biden\u2019s campaign and its allies, buoyed by incumbency, have been moving in the opposite direction, building a more expansive operation sooner than in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation has alarmed GOP officials in key states like Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, who have yet to receive promised funding, staff or even briefings on the new plans since the Trump team took control of the Republican National Committee in March. An earlier party blueprint for a general election build-out has been discarded, party officials say. Plans to open new offices have been scuttled. Hiring has been slowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018In order to win close elections in Georgia, you have to have a ground game that emphasizes turning out early votes and absentee votes,\u2019 said Cody Hall, a senior adviser to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). \u2018I have seen no evidence of them having any of that. The Trump campaign has a consultant in Georgia, but there is nothing else that I can see. \u2026 Everyone is generally concerned.<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe original RNC plan for the state of Georgia, reviewed by The Washington Post, called for hiring 12 regional field directors in April and 40 field organizers by the end of May, in addition to eventually opening 20 offices and a community center in the College Park, a mostly Black suburb of Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just last week, the Georgia GOP\u2019s infighting hit new levels when they forced out a member of their leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>: \u201cThe latest came Friday when party activists voted to strip first vice chair Brian Pritchard of his leadership post after a judge ruled he voted illegally nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThough the vote was overwhelming, Pritchard framed himself as a political martyr and complained that party leaders \u2018marched\u2019 him out of the meeting after he lost the vote. He still plans to attend the convention on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMcKoon said Pritchard was escorted out after he tried to hold an unauthorized news conference outside the meeting with an unnamed ally who was \u2018trespassing on private property.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe also said he hopes to release a video and transcript of the meeting \u2018so people can judge for themselves what took place.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia\u2019s own Republican first lady refused to endorse Trump, despite her husband already pledging his support for the former president:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WABE<\/a>: \u201cGeorgia first lady Marty Kemp recently said she would not vote for Donald Trump in November \u2013 and she\u2019d \u2018write Brian Kemp\u2019s name in.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump has targeted Governor Kemp for declining to help interfere with Georgia\u2019s 2020 election result.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of members of the Georgia Republican Party gathering for their state convention, DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement:  \u201cTomorrow, Trump\u2019s Georgia GOP allies will convene in Columbus, GA. 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