After more than a year of vendettas against Georgia state Republican officials, all supporters of former President Trump failed to unseat the state incumbents on Tuesday. Governor Brian Kemp beat his Trump-backed challenger by more than 50 points and even Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who wrote a book about Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 Georgia election, won outright to avoid a runoff. Trump’s open race advocates, such as Herschel Walker in the Senate primary and Burt Jones in the lieutenant governor primary, fared better. In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew recaps the night’s competitions in Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota.
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