retiring. mo brooks is hoping to advance there without trump s endorsement after brooks said that voters should move past trump s 2020 defeat. and in arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders is favored to win the republican nomination in what is a deep red state. but the spotlight will be on the race for governor in georgia today. the popular incumbent governor kemp faces david perdue. kemp was a target of trump after he refused to help overturn the 2020 election results, that race also pitting mike pence against his former boss. pence stumping for kemp at a primary eve rally monday. the polls indicate kemp is headed for a rematch with stacey abrams in november. and meantime herschel walker is expected to easily win his senate primary in georgia setting the stage for one of the most closely watched senate races pitting the former nfl star against the current democratic senator raphael war warnock. joining us now to break it all down, rachel bay. nice to have you this morning. let s
pumped into perdue s campaign. as you guys know, president trump raises a lot of money, but he rarely actually spends it on a candidate. and here he did to try to help perdue. it didn t work. and this is going to be a big embarrassment for him and that is why you are seeing kefmp rigt now doesn t even see a threat right now and he is pivoting to the general election. while he has national media, while the spotlight is on him, to try to get ahead when it comes to take taking on stacey abrams. this latest example that an endorsement is helpful but not everything if you don t have anything else to really show for it. and then we have this sort of last minute last ditch effort dog whistle if you will from perdue pouncing on stacey abrams comment where she said that georgia is the worst state in the country to live, of course she was citing health care, wages, incarceration. but she knew that she would dach t
democratic senator raphael war warnock. joining us now to break it all down, rachel bay. nice to have you this morning. let s start with georgia. governor kemp s focus seems to have shifted now, or maybe it has always been squarely focused on stacey abrams. he is not worried about perdue. perdue is lagging behind and lobbing a bunch of attacks from every direction. what are you most interested to watch tonight? i think that is just a sign of the rebuke that we ll see delivered to former president donald trump tonight in georgia. this will be the third gubernatorial endorsement that he has made that will fall through the cracks in these primaries which actually hurts his public image and this image that he is trying to project of being the kingmaker. kemp is at something like 22 points over david perdue and this is despite $2.5 million that former president trump
catch the ire of everyone. listen to how perdue responded. she ain t from here, let her go back where she came from if she doesn t like it here. only thing she wants is to be president of the united states. she doesn t care about the people of georgia. that is clear. and when she told black farmers you don t need to be on the farm and black workers in hospitality and all this, you don t need to be she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that. i m really over this. she should never be considered for material for governor of any state much less our state where she hates to live. if his best argument is go back where she came from, seems like a problem for him. yeah, i mean perdue is really flailing right there. stacey abrams came to the state as a high school student. she s been there for decades. to tell her to go back, that 100% will bring up sort of this memory americans have about president trump telling four women of color in congress to,
donald trump s candidate. but the polls have shown this race going this way for a long time and you don t see mike pence weighing in against trump in a lot of other contentious gop primaries across the country. so a little bit of a misnomer there but clearly mike pence is trying to look tough against trump in case he runs against him in 2024. and i also want to ask you about sort of the back drop to all this, which is voter restrictions. i think there is a question about what impact they will have and whether they will drive moor democratic voters to the polls and certainly stacey abrams has worked hard on sort of overcoming all the restrictions while a lot of democrats have said that it is actually boxing out a lot of black voters. what are you hearing on that? i think it will be a big test tonight to see sort of what that