You know, Jonathan Lemire at the Georgia rally,
we're we're really burying the lead.
Donald Trump has been a scourge,
a scourge to Georgia Republicans.
And they've said as much.
He was responsible for, for their loss in the 2020
Senate race and which of course kept Republicans from being
the majority party in the United States Senate.
He was responsible for the Senate candidates loss in
2022, which also helped Democrats.
That's control the Senate again.
He goes in in 2024.
Kamala Harris makes Georgia a swing state once again,
as you said that the numbers are all showing it.
And what does he do?
And you know, he's raging behind the scenes according to
to my sources inside the campaign.
So what does he do?
He he does the exact thing
that his campaign staff that members of the Georgia GOP
would not want him to.
Two, he picks a fight with an extraordinarily popular Republican
governor,
and I will say also with a Secretary of State
in Georgia that,
yes, recorded Donald Trump trying to rig the election.
And then Brad Raffensberger then went to the polls
the next fall with Donald Trump trying to defeat him.
And what happened? He won in a landslide victory in
the primary.
But this is what Donald Trump,
instead of doing what would have been good for Donald
Trump and good for Republicans,
and either making peace with Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger
or at least not saying anything,
this is what Donald Trump did at a critical moment
in this campaign.
Your governor Kemp and Raffensburgers are doing everything possible to
make
2024 difficult for Republicans to win that.
What are they doing? I don't know.
They got something in mind.
You know, they got a little something in mind.
Kemp is very bad for the Republican Party under these
kinds of woke,
radical left policies. Atlanta is like a killing field and
your governor ought to get off his and do something
about it.
He's a bad guy. He's a disloyal guy and he's
a very average governor.
Little Brian, little Brian Cap,
bad guy. But think of it,
I got this guy. Just think and then that's it.
I got this guy nominated.
I then got him elected without me.
He doesn't get nominated and he doesn't get elected.
He's a he's a bad guy
and he's not doing this country a good service.
People are looking at Georgia with Fonny
and her lover and all of the other things saying
what the hell is going on in Georgia?
What the hell is going on?
The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020
and we're not going to let them rig the presidential
election in
2024.
The new Trump, wow, you know,
getting ready for a fight.
The thing is, Jonathan, in so many ways,
this is so bad for him.
It's so bad for his campaign.
And I'll just underline to everybody again,
when I talk about
what Brian Kemp has done,
he he, he not only
won easily in the general election,
he won a landslide in the GOP primary.
Republicans like him there. Donald Trump's biggest problem
was that a lot of Republicans stayed home in the
northern suburbs
of Atlanta.
People, Republicans in the northern suburbs of Atlanta love Brian
Kemp.
Republicans that Donald Trump need the most love Brian Kemp.
And he used his rally in Atlanta
trashing their governor. And again,
you just, there's, there's nothing logical about it.
There's nothing rational about it.
There's nothing sane about it.
And and so the question for Republicans inside and outside
of that campaign is what's wrong with Donald Trump?
Yeah. Remember that Georgia arrived as a swing state ahead
of schedule in 2020 because of
Trump's poor performance in or in office.
And then, of course, no one anticipated Democrats would get
both Senate seats.
But Trump, while fighting the big lie,
you know, refused to go down there and campaign.
The one event he had was the street against all
the Republicans there turned off GOP voters.
Democrats get both seats and then the majority
of the upper chamber. And we have seen now all
that talk of this professional discipline Trump campaign,
that's gone. That's out the window right now.
The candidate himself is making the decisions,
much to the consternation of those around him.
And he is rattled. We have seen,
we always say this here when you want to know
how Donald Trump really feels,
look at Truth Social in the middle of the night.
And it's just been screed after screed since Vice President
Harris
ascended the top of the ticket that campaign.
The Trump campaign has no answer yet how to respond
to her.
They are. He is rattled held by the crowd size,
obviously. Look, they both filled that arena,
but Harris could do it.
Biden, that was something he couldn't do.
And now Trump thinks that was a huge advantage,
a blow to his ego that's now gone.
And it can't be said enough,
Joe, you're right, Brian Kemp is really popular there in
Georgia.
And the combination of Harris at the top of the
ticket and Trump reigniting this feud with with Kemp,
couple Republicans said to me over the weekend,
Georgia is very much in play right now and they
feel like it could slip away from Republicans.
Hey, Joe. Yeah. And, and,
and John, you, you, you do have Donald Trump
raging right now, out of control.
You have the campaign manager
posting pictures of Tony Soprano flipping,
flipping the bird,
which again, gives you a nice look into the state
of mind.
And I suspect the meltdown will continue even more if
Kamala Harris selects Josh Shapiro,
as many believe she's going to do,
because that is the one
vice presidential pick that the Trump campaign fears the most.
Because it it, it really moves Pennsylvania,
the most important state. It's leaning sort of in Harris's
direction.
It's. Well, first, you know how popular is Brian Campus?
Anybody have any idea? Brian camps approval rating in Georgia
63% Now 63% is a high approval rating.
If you got to attack somebody,
you know, it's just it just boggles the mind.
63% approval rating, Brian Kim.
So, you know, that's, that's basically all the Republicans in
Georgia and a decent chunk of Democrats in Georgia who
like Brian Kemp.
And yet Donald Trump thinks that's the right way to
try to win the state of Georgia.
Now to get to your second point,
show This is why this matters so much.
The Trump campaign back when they were riding high,
you used to talk about,
I'm talking about around the convention time.
You just talk about all the pass they had to
270 electoral votes and oh God,
we say so many pass,
pass, pass. We're going to get
320 electoral votes. Maybe we'll get
350 electoral votes. They had all these paths.
But what they also would would say Tony Fabrizio,
Trump's pollster,
sat in a small room with a bunch of people,
with a small room with a few people in,
in, in, in, in Milwaukee and including me and said,
we have all these paths to 270,
but here's the the easiest path we have.
And I raised this because it goes right to your
question.
So the easiest path we have
270. And this is what it's going to come down
to,
I think for them is we hold all the states
that we won
in 2020 and we win Georgia
and Pennsylvania. We don't have to win Arizona.
We don't have to win Nevada.
We don't have to win Wisconsin,
we don't have to win Michigan if we win the
states we held in the states we had in 2020,
plus Georgia and Pennsylvania. Look at Trump's ad spending right
now and what they bought over the course of the
next couple months.
The biggest states, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
And so here we are Donald Trump attacking Brian Kemp
in Georgia
and worried a lot, as you just said,
about about Josh Shapiro being the running mate because of
Pennsylvania,
because that's that's the ball game for them.
That's their easiest way. And they may be as much
as the blue wall states were Joe Biden's only way
to get to two O 70.
This may be the central way and may be the
only way for for Donald Trump to get to 270.
And
these are not these. It's not Auger.
Well, if those are the two states that Trump needs,
what
and Mika, The problem is you can spend as much
money as you want to in Georgia.
You trash an extraordinarily popular governor with the
63% approval rating and Republicans probably approval rating in the
90s,
right? You do that then then you're you're going to
get blasted with earned media.
It's going to be negative.
And the Atlanta Journal Constitution Day in and day out
and day in and day out
going to be showing how this feud is playing out.
And that's something again that just
has the very real possibility of cratering support in in
the suburbs of Atlanta.
There's just also strong, strong
contrast in terms of optics,
where Donald Trump seems angry and bellowing right and now
the other side just seems hopeful and happy.