For candidates that support our pro-life values, our values of having a good economy. that everybody that young people can survive under. dana: this from a pollster on the david perdue/kemp race. with perdue it s hard to see how the race is over. he doesn t have commercials on tv and went dark two weeks ago. kemp is up. almost impossible to win a major race when a popular governor is bombarding you on tv and you are dark. perdue said he felt like he could at least force a runoff. how do you see it? you have to be optimistic if are you a candidate on the ballot and hope is to keep kemp to less than 50%. but kemp has run a brilliant campaign. he has made this about two things. one is his own record and vision for the state. strong economy, pro-life, pro-second amendment, election reform legislation, education laws, teacher pay raise. he has made a very substantive
Hi, aishah. good morning, martha. from ruby red alabama where the polls are open and as you mentioned by the time the polls close tonight we do not expect there to be a clear republican nominee for u.s. senate. that s because of all the candidates. we are not expecting any of them to reach that 50% threshold to avoid a runoff next month. here is a look now at the top gop contenders for this race. katie britt is leading the pack in the most recent poll. she is senator shelby s former chief of staff. watch out for mo brooks seeing a late surge and mike dur ants is battling for second place. each candidate trying to prove they re the most conservative. brooks highlighted his record in congress while he has been tying durant. he has been seeing a lot of
Ticking time. people who lost loved ones because of people here illegally. it is about to happen again. tom, thank you very much. good to have you here this morning. thank you. dana: election day in georgia. the polls opened three hours ago. many eyes on the republican primary for governor seen as a big test of the power of former president trump s endorsement. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill is off today. so we have my friend martha. martha: we took over pretty much. i m martha maccallum and great to be here with dana this morning. a big day. dana: a big political day. martha: you are seeing heavy turnout in the peach state for sure in early voting. a lot of big races that we keep an eye on here throughout the day and into this evening when we start to get results here. you have governor s race, u.s. senate race and georgia secretary of state going on in the peach state.
greg blue jnbluestein, those voters you talk to all your time. you spent most of your career covering georgia politics. you know the points of view. joe is right, if you re surprised to hear about 2,000 mules, you maybe don t live in a part of the country where that has become sort of the guiding story line about what happened in 2020. that s a movie that s out right now. what were your impressions of what you heard? were you surprisd by anything? no. this is rhetoric we hear from fervent donald trump supporters and democrats. exactly right, a lot of democrats don t feel abrams did anything wrong by not conceding the race. she will point out she didn t try to actively undermine and allege that she was the governor. you know, she knows she s now not the governor. she didn t try to overturn the election results, she just didn t concede.
And also texas. let s begin in atlanta yeah, georgia with mark meredith is standing by. good morning. there are a lot of notable races to watch in georgia today. perhaps the one getting the most attention the race underway right now to be georgia s republican governor nominee. incumbent brian kemp facing a challenge from david perdue. former president trump is backing perdue in this race. we have also seen this come down to a lot of criticism from the former president about the election from 2020 when georgia went blue back then. last night governor kemp was campaigning with former vice president mike pence and while pence did not attack his former boss and friend he hinted at the awkwardness of this race while also urging georgia republicans to stay the course. elections are about the future. now, there are those who want to make this election about the past. here in georgia governor brian kemp means jobs, jobs, jobs.