Aljazeera
Former United States President Donald Trump has been seeking revenge ever since Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refused his demands that they overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
That battle is coming to a head on Tuesday as voters in Georgia go to the polls to choose preferred Republican and Democratic candidates for the November general elections that will determine control of Congress. Other primary races to watch are happening in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.
Should the Republicans gain a majority in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, it would be a blow to President Joe Biden, a Democrat, as they would almost certainly block his legislative agenda.
In Georgia’s governor’s race, Trump has backed former US Senator David Purdue against Kemp but Purdue has lagged in fundraising and opinion surveys. Kemp has drawn broad support from other Republicans and is favoured to win.
Meanwhile, Georgia’s top elections official Raffensperger is facing a challenge by Representative Jody Hice, a US congressman who has backed Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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In Georgia on Monday, former Vice President Mike Pence is set to campaign with Kemp, while Trump will participate in a virtual rally for Purdue.
Since leaving office, Pence has put distance between himself and Trump over the former president’s claims about the 2020 election.
“Mike is trying to get involved, and he’s a very nice man, but he really let us all down. He let us down,” Trump told a radio talk show earlier this month. Trump had recruited Purdue to take on Kemp…
