Donald Trump “didn’t do a good enough job” of promoting a second term and that’s why he lost, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp told Politico in an interview published Friday.
Kemp was the second ranking Republican in the past few days to remind Americans that Trump has lost re-election for good but is still seeking GOP support for another presidential run.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told CNN on Thursday that Trump is a “proven loser.”
“It fades fast,” Ryan said. “He’s a proven loser who cost us the House in ’18, cost us the White House in ’20, cost us the Senate again and again, and I think we all know that.”
via the Associated Press
Ryan said he thinks Republicans are “passing by” Trump. “I can’t imagine get the nominationsincere.”
Kemp told Politico that Trump lost re-election because he failed to tell people “what he did and what he wanted to do in a second term.”
Perhaps with Trump in mind, he recently told a conservative group that Republicans can’t just be against Democrats: “We have to be for something,” noted Politico.
Kemp rejected Trump’s pressure to undermine Georgia’s vote for Joe Biden in the presidential election. Trump repaid him by endorsing Kemp’s primary rival, David Perdue, who was defeated, as well as Democrat Stacy Abrams in the gubernatorial race against Kemp.
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