republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and his movement, and it has been years since a democr
trump s meddling in the 2020 election, a deep rural urban divide and unending drama between the trump wing of the republican party and the local gop establishment. it s on those last few points where tonight s results will give us some important answers potentially to these questions. what is the power of a trump endorsement these day, and does the big lie have staying power here? the republican schism over those two points are at play in the republican gubernatorial primary right now. current georgia governor brian kemp fighting to keep his seat, keeping it from trump-endorsed former senator david purdue. both of them were on the campaign trail last night. purdue has the backing of the former president. and kemp last night on stage with former vice president mike pence who fell out of trump s favor himself after, of course, january 6th. now, whoever wins that race will face off against democrat stacey abrams in november. she held an event in the last 30 minutes and said this
deadly insurrection and that threatens to unravel our democracy, well, it s on the ballot in several states today in gop primaries that are just as much a measure of the trumpification of the republican party as they are a test of the disgraced ex-president s political power. in georgia, governor brian kemp and secretary of state brad raffensperger are facing primary challengers entirely because of their refusal to overturn the results of the 2020 election there. trump s conduct in georgia is notably under criminal investigation now. a pair of trump-backed candidates, that would be former senator david perdue and congressman jody hice are hoping to unseat republicans kemp and raffensperger. new york times reports this, quote, along with representative jody hice, david perdue is running a campaign that s almost single mindedly focused on trump s baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and in true trump style, perdue is ending a campaign that is staked
war, plus trump versus pence, candidates in duelling rallies just hours before the polls open, is trump about to face his biggest primary defeat yet and was it a love triangle turned deadly? texas marshalls looking for a woman who allegedly killed a cyclist dating her boyfriend. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett, pentagon confirming plans under way to send u.s. forces to protect the embassy in ukraine s capitol, planning includes potentially sending special operations forces there and that would mark the first u.s. troops into ukraine since the war began. even as president biden promised there would be none. just a short distance from the u.s. embassy, mean time, towns are still under attack like desna where according to ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy, 87 people were killed after four rockets hit the town. this this comes as putin faces growing opposition to his operation in ukraine inside russia, today long-time russian diplomat quit in a damning letter saying h
incumbent republican brian kemp and democrat staibians who lost by the tiniest of margins and is running unopposed in the primary. from what we ve seen so far in the political ads, stacey abrams is the star of the show, all the republican candidates, no matter what office they are running for are talking about you. how dare you, stacey abrams atapping butch miller for writing a law against transgender boys competing in boys sports. chris carr, georgia s conservative attorney general, he s taken on president biden and stacey abrams. stacey abrams and the liberal mob forced the all-star game to move. stacey abrams and the media, they all came after us. we ve got to keep stacey abrams from becoming our governor and our next president. wow, it will be up to the next governor to stand up to the big lie, and there are plenty of republicans pushing that farce, including in the races for senate and secretary of state. in the race for the republican nomination for governor f