Wall Street Journal: “The Spectacular MAGA Breakup Rocking” Georgia’s GOP Gov Primary

Wall Street Journal: "The Spectacular MAGA Breakup Rocking" Georgia's GOP Gov Primary

New reporting from The Wall Street Journal digs into how the MAGA civil war engulfing Georgia's Republican Party is seriously jeopardizing the GOP's chances in the governor's race. The piece zeroes in on how the bitter "family feud," "vicious ads," and "infighting" in the GOP gubernatorial primary between Trump-endorsed Burt Jones and MAGA billionaire Rick Jackson have left Democrats "optimistic" about their chances of electing a Democratic governor in November.

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Wall Street Journal: The Spectacular MAGA Breakup Rocking Georgia

KEY EXCERPTS:

• MAGA activists, long accustomed to branding many elected Republicans as RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), are now turning on each other. Infighting has consumed three key races-governor, Senate and the House seat-spawning lawsuits, ethics complaints and vicious ads.

• The Georgia governor's race has also turned ugly. A mysterious political-action committee with an unknown funding source-Georgians for Integrity-has spent about $17 million attacking Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, whom Trump has endorsed, according to data from AdImpact. The ads call Jones "shady." The Georgia GOP filed an ethics complaint against the group.

• Jones had been the clear MAGA favorite, but a late entrant-Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare executive who has never held office-is now challenging him for that lane.

• Jackson has vowed to be Trump's "favorite governor," called Jones "lazy as the day is long," and dubbed Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, another candidate, a "Judas" for refusing to help Trump overturn his 2020 defeat in Georgia.

• Democrats are optimistic. "These idiots are making our jobs a lot easier," said Charlie Bailey, the Democratic state chairman. Last fall, Democrats flipped two seats on the state's Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities. More recently, a Democrat won a statehouse district Trump carried by double digits.

Read the entire piece at The Wall Street Journal.

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