“Hopefully Trump will stay out of the race as much as he possibly can,” a Republican aide told the Hill.
in the primaries.
“If you talk to Georgia election strategists, they believe Trump was a huge drag on Walker in suburban Atlanta and there’s just no reason to risk repeating that,” the GOP aide told the Hill. “If Trump injects himself into the race somehow and Walker comes up short, that’s really bad for Trump too.” Republicans are worried about a 2021 repeat in Georgia when David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler lost Senate runoff elections to Sen. Jon Ossoff and Warnock, respectively.
Trump led a rally in Georgia a day before voters went to the polls in 2021 and claimed that the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden was “rigged” and rife with fraud. Far less Republicans voted in the runoff races than the general election, leading many to believe Trump-supporting voters boycotted the election.
“Important Advice to Republicans re Georgia Runoff: Trump needs to remember NOT to instruct Walker supporters to boycott the vote!” conservative commentator Ann Coulter wrote in a tweet on Wednesday, referencing the GOP’s 2021 Georgia runoff debacle. It doesn’t seem likely that Trump will lay low until after Dec. 6. The former president issued a press release on Thursday indicating that his Nov. 15 “special announcement,” expected to be the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign, is“But if he’s going to come out in five days and announce his presidential run, that’s not going to be great for us,” the GOP aide told the Hill.
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