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Abrams vows to raise minimum teacher pay to $50K if elected governor

Democrat Stacey Abrams proposed raising the minimum salary for Georgia public school teachers to $50,000 a year if she's elected governor, part of a four-year plan that would hike the pay of K-12 educators by $11,000.

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Abrams, Kemp push differing approaches to school safety

Gov. Brian Kemp urged preparedness and his challenger Stacey Abrams touted gun safety laws as they each addressed school board members from across Georgia this week.

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Under Georgia voting law, absentees decline but turnout is resilient

ATLANTA — Georgia's voting law was designed to tighten regulations on absentee voting — the word "absentee" appears 343 times in the 98-page voting bill legislators approved in 2021.

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GOPer who won 3.4% cries voter fraud

Mike Lindell-backed Kandiss Taylor vows to prove she got "hundreds of thousands of votes"

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At White House, Uvalde’s Matthew McConaughey makes impassioned plea on guns

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Why top Georgia Democrats are pushing Biden to forgive student debt

ATLANTA — After the ground-thumping music died down, Stacey Abrams took the stage in west Atlanta to congratulate dozens of teens on graduating from high school — and pledge she'll find new ways to relieve their student debt if she's elected governor.

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Kemp ad slams Abrams for 'worst state in the country to live' remark

ATLANTA — Almost as soon as gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called Georgia the "worst state in the country to live," the Democrat's campaign expected the remark to be the center of new GOP attacks. Gov. Brian Kemp's first TV ad of the general election cycle does exactly that.

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Some in Ga. GOP want closed primaries after Trump picks lose

Some Republican activists are calling on abolishing Georgia’s open primary system

The Independent UK

Stacey Abrams aims to shape Georgia down-ticket races with new endorsements

ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams has already notched the Democratic nomination for governor. Now she’s trying to shape the rest of the statewide ticket ahead of this month’s runoffs.

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As Trump fumes, Kemp's former Georgia foes fall in line

ATLANTA — Donald Trump is still peddling conspiracy theories after Gov. Brian Kemp humbled his handpicked challenger. But David Perdue and several other one-time Kemp adversaries are pleading with Georgia Republicans to rally around the governor.

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Georgia GOP confident as it heads for November as Democrats aim to build on recent successes

ATLANTA — Spared of runoffs, top Georgia Republicans head into a general election campaign with newfound momentum as they seek to reverse recent losses that shattered the GOP's monopoly on statewide power.

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A brutal slog awaits: Georgia candidates draw battle lines ahead of November race

ATLANTA — The policy divides in Georgia's marquee political races came into clearer focus after this week's primaries, as Republicans tied their opponents to President Joe Biden and Democrats condemned pro-gun GOP stances following another mass shooting.

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Patricia Murphy: How Brian Kemp cracked the Trump code for Republicans and won

ATLANTA — Pay attention, Republican elected officials, both local and national. And open your ears, GOP voters wondering where your party has been since 2016. Also, right-of-center family members with that crazy uncle who keeps coming to Thanksgiving, this one's for you.

Tribune News Service

Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be pricey, long and ugly

The governor's race in Georgia between Republican incumbent Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams promises to be a brutal battle that will further amp up the state's charged political environment

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Reason

If Georgia's Election Law Was Supposed To Suppress the Vote, It Sure Did a Bad Job

After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.

Al Jazeera

Trump-backed candidates lose but Trumpism wins in US primaries

Georgia losses add to losing record for Trump’s candidates, but his hard-right politics is winning among Republicans.

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Incumbent Kemp defeats Perdue and three others in Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary

Incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp defeated former U.S. Sen. David Perdue and three other candidates—Catherine Davis, Kandiss Taylor, and Tom Williams—in the Republican primary election for governor of Georgia on May 24, 2022. With 57% of precincts reporting, Kemp had 73% of the vote, followed by Perdue with 23%. No other…

Irish Mirror

Donald Trump suffers stinging losses in Georgia Republican contests

Results of Georgia Republican contests suggest Donald Trump's influence is not as great as it once was

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Takeaways: Trump's big primary defeat; scandals for the win

Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance has suffered a devastating blow after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won his primary Tuesday despite rejecting Trump's entreaties to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state

Los Angeles Times

Georgia Gov. Kemp beats Trump’s hand-picked challenger in GOP primary — will face Stacey Abrams

Tuesday’s primary elections featured the inaugural stop in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 revenge tour — the first opportunities he’s had to unseat Republicans whom he considers disloyal for refusing to acquiesce in his baseless fraud claims.

The Guardian - US

Resounding setback for Trump as Kemp wins Republican primary in Georgia

Former president had sought to oust current governor as part of his crusade to punish those involved in his 2020 defeat

Tribune News Service

Rematch: Kemp’s GOP victory sets up another battle with Abrams

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp defeated former U.S. Sen. David Perdue to score a GOP primary victory that showed the limits of Donald Trump’s endorsement in Georgia and set up a rematch against Democrat Stacey Abrams in November.

Reason

Good Riddance, David Perdue

In a campaign that began with promise and ended with racist invective, the former Georgia senator performed so poorly as to not even qualify for a runoff.

The Independent UK

Brian Kemp staves off Trump’s effort to oust him in Georgia

Governor faced rebuke over refusal to interfere in 2020 election

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