The GOP U.S. Senate primary in Georgia has repeatedly been plagued by constant infighting
Georgia’s GOP U.S Senate primary “reached new levels of antipathy” after Gov. Brian Kemp released an ad in support of failed and fired former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley blaming Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins for the longest government shutdown in history.
Kemp’s Dooley-boosting ad argues that both Carter and Collins have “failed” and “shut down the government” as they have not been to work in nearly 50 days and remain opposed to extending critical tax credits as 1.4 million Georgians brace for skyrocketing premiums.
After the ad was released, Collins quickly slammed Kemp for “using dark money to attack Republican members of the Georgia delegation” and called the ad “disconnected from reality.”
“Brian Kemp’s latest attempt to boost the failed and fired Derek Dooley further proves that Republicans are in for a long, nasty primary,” said Democratic Party of Georgia Senior Communications Advisor Devon Cruz. “No matter who limps out of the primary, it’s been made very clear that the eventual nominee will be badly bruised and battered for a general election.”