know whether he can hold on. i would guess in the republican party of 2022, putting money on kathy barnette might be a safe bet tonight. but, you know, she s ended her campaign basically going after donald trump, which i think is fascinating. saying, hey, you know, trump says i can t win? i did better in the county i ran in in 2020 than he did. who is he to tell me i can t win? again, fascinating ending to this race. no, absolutely. you know, this is someone who has been supportive of donald trump when he was president. she was in washington, d.c., on january 6th, marching and talk and spreading the lies. at the same time, she has kind of come behind. you know, it s been interesting to watch, like you said. you have republicans and republican leadership who are getting really nervous. one, because this is, again, a test of donald trump s resill
shot at winning gubernatorial races and senate races. they rekathy barnette is right. in some cases, we point at trump. no doubt, he put a lot of his clout on the line, and he either is going to in some cases, his clout is going to stick the republican party with the wrong candidate, making it hard to win the general election, or the candidates he endorsed are going to lose, like the kemp race. but she s right, that the base is now dragging donald trump as much as donald trump is leading the base. you can t overemphasize the notion of what has happened in the transformation of the party into a trumpist party, is trump s power is real with the republican base, but the republican base itself has a mind of its own. so in some of these states, like arizona and other places, the genie is out of the bottle. in some ways, trump is racing to keep up with the base rather than the other way around. i think that is the deeper problem that republicans have in a lot of these states going forward.
the president s closing strategy of fear mongering has reached racist levels including ads on the major news channels, a transparent attempt on twitter to keep democratic voters away from the polls. in georgia it s getting ugly, or i should say uglier. after racist robocalls attacking democrat stacey abrams, the woman trying to become the nation s first black female governor, the secretary of state she is now facing baseless charges from her opponent, the current secretary of state brian kemp, who is facing criticism for his own efforts at voter suppression. kemp has now announced what appears to be a sham hacking investigation of state democrats. this is a desperate attempt by brian kemp to, once again, cover up his bad actions and his abuse of power. he s abusing his power and he s not fit to be the next leader of the state of georgia. and so we begin in atlanta, georgia, where correspondent rehema ellis is covering the abrams/kemp race.
by brian kemp to, once again, cover up his bad actions and his abuse of power. he s abusing his power and he s not fit to be the next leader of the state of georgia. and so we begin in atlanta, georgia, where correspondent rehema ellis is covering the abrams/kemp race. it has been a close one, bitterly fought. you have the man who is overseeing the state s election apparatus running that race. what does it look like there from the ground? here on the ground at the stacey abrams location, we ve got people who are working for a campaign and they re conducting not robocalls, they re conducting calls to prospective voters of stacey abrams. they ve been doing it all day and they say they re going to do it all tomorrow as well. they are also upset over the allegations coming from the secretary of state s office that you pointed out, these allegations that there might be hacking in some way. they say that what s most important here is that people remember that they have to get out and v