You wouldn’t think that stating the obvious would look so much like a profile in courage, or at least a profile in candor. But that’s exactly what it is for today’s Republican Party, which is facing a third presidential election with Donald Trump at the top of the pile and very few GOP leaders willing to say what they believe— that Trump cannot win the White House in 2024 — until now.
There, at the head of Team “Tell It Like It Is” last weekend, was Georgia’s own governor, Brian Kemp, delivering the message to a GOP donor retreat in Nashville: It’s time to move on.
“Not a single swing voter in a single swing state will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen,” he told the group of high-level donors and operatives. The 2020 election “is ancient history, he said, and voters “couldn’t care less about someone’s sour grapes.”
