Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ruled out running for president in 2024 and warned Republicans – including frontrunner Donald Trump – that they can’t win Georgia if they continue to spout false claims about election fraud from 2020.
“If (Trump) continues to do that, he’s going to lose Georgia in November,” he said in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”
Pressed on his own 2024 presidential aspirations, Kemp said he was “certainly not running.”
“In politics, there’s always doors opening and closing. I got a great job right now. I personally feel like having more people in the race does not help us win and beat Joe Biden. So, you know, I’m certainly not running for president. But there’s always doors opening in politics depending on how things play out, and we’ll see what happens,” he said.
He has refrained from offering a presidential endorsement at this stage of the race, but offered this message to his party’s 2024 hopefuls: “We have to tell the American people what we are for. We got to be forward-thinking and tell them what we’re gonna do. We can’t be looking in the rearview mirror. And then, we gotta have a candidate that can beat Joe Biden in November.”
Ultimately, Kemp said, he will “certainly” endorse the 2024 Republican nominee, even if it is Trump.
Pressed by Collins on whether Trump can win the state he lost by less than 12,000 votes in 2020, the Georgia Republican said he thinks he can due to President Joe Biden’s low popularity. But Trump, Kemp added, needs to stop talking about 2020.
“I think he (Trump) can because Joe Biden has been such a bad president. His approval ratings are just terrible in the state of Georgia right now. So I think he can. I also think he can lose Georgia if he’s not doing what I said: telling people what he’s for,…
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