Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) did not vote for former President Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year — but he also did not vote for any other candidate in the race.
Kemp told CNN on the eve of the first presidential debate in Atlanta that he did not vote in the primary. He argued that by the time Peach State voters were slated to weigh in on who the GOP nominee should be, the race had already been decided.
“I didn’t vote for anybody,” Kemp said on CNN’s The Source on Wednesday. “I voted. But I didn’t vote for anybody. I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here.
“I mean, I wanted to go vote,” he added. “I always try to go vote and play a part in it. But look, at that point, it didn’t really matter. I’ve said, for a long time that I’m going to support the ticket. That’s what I’m doing now.”
Kemp reiterated his support for Trump in November as the GOP nominee and said he thought about supporting someone in the primary but decided against it.
“He was the presumptive nominee before the primary ever got here,” Kemp said. “I mean, I didn’t support anybody in the race. I mean, I was thinking about it. But just because a lot of circumstances, and the way things played out, I didn’t end up doing that. But [I’ve] said, all along, for the most part, that I will support the ticket. And that’s what I’ve always done. And that’s what I’m doing this November.”
When asked if he would campaign alongside the former president in Georgia, the GOP governor said he would “see how the race plays out” and what the Trump campaign “might ask for or need.”
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Georgia is one of the key battleground states in the presidential election in November between Trump and President Joe Biden.
Trump lost the state to Biden in 2020 but has led in recent polls conducted in the Peach State. The RealClearPolitics polling average shows the former president leading his successor, 46.2%-42.2%, in Georgia.
