Brian Kemp warns 2024 election could become ‘a race to the bottom’
Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, once seen as a potential 2024 presidential rival to former President Donald Trump, on Saturday offered some of his sharpest rhetoric yet against the Republican frontrunner.
LEXINGTON, Va. — Georgia’s GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, once seen as a potential 2024 presidential rival to former President Donald Trump, on Saturday offered some of his sharpest rhetoric yet against the Republican front-runner.
“This election should be about results, not personalities … because if this general election becomes a debate about who can outlast the other 80 year-old politician, the American people will lose,” Kemp said in a speech to students at Washington and Lee University’s Mock Convention in Lexington, Virginia.
Kemp didn’t explicitly name Trump in his speech before the convention — which every four years seeks to emulate a real presidential nominating convention for the party currently out of the White House — but he spoke about the need for Republicans to offer a positive vision to voters rather than simply running against President Joe Biden’s record.
“Our message to voters must be about what we’re going to do for the country if they give us the keys back to the White House,” he told students.
Without delving into specifics, the Georgia governor also railed against the “fringe elements” of political parties.
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