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Governor Brian Kemp has steadfastly defended Georgia against allegations of voter fraud after the 2020 election.
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Kemp, who dismissed Trump’s push to overturn a Biden win, dismissed Giuliani’s allegations in 2020.
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“For someone to tinker with this process for me is very upsetting,” Kemp told WSB radio last week.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday he was troubled by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s admission that he made false statements about the integrity of the state’s elections, as former President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney for years accused two election workers of mishandling ballots in Fulton County.
Kemp – who has repeatedly dismissed Trump’s pressure campaign to overthrow incumbent President Joe Biden for 2020 victory In Georgia — then-WSB radio journalist Sandra Parrish told N.J Giuliani’s accusations It was problematic given the range of measures that were put in place to instill confidence in elections at the state level.
“There are a lot of people, myself included, who got under a lot of pressure at the time from lawmakers and others because of supposedly false statements that he made,” the governor said of Giuliani.
Kemp continued, “It’s really annoying when you’re trying to have a safe, accessible, fair election in the state.” “For someone to manipulate this process for me is deeply troubling.”
Giuliani’s admission came when he filed court papers related to a defamation lawsuit filed by Robbie Freeman and Shay Moss — a mother and daughter of a poll worker — who accused the former mayor of vote-rigging during the ballot-counting process at State Farm Arena. in Atlanta while serving on the Fulton County Board of Elections.
Trump insisted for years, without evidence, that alleged voter fraud in Fulton County was the main reason he lost the state to Biden by nearly 12,000 votes.
Fulton, a Democratic stronghold, voted for Biden over Trump by 73%-26%, or 243,000 votes.
When Giuliani sought to sway conservative state lawmakers in 2020 to consider his electoral claims, Kemp was skeptical of the former mayor’s account and at the time named His remarks about counting votes in suburban Cobb County “joke”.
Kemp: ‘He doesn’t know the Georgia FBI well’ He said Giuliani in December 2020.
After the 2020 election, Trump continued to control Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rejected them to bolster his false electoral claims and urge lawmakers to reverse the result.
The former boss recruited primary challengers to defeat both men last year, however Kemp And Raffensperger He easily won their respective primaries and went on to win General elections Re-election contests.
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