The governor must decide whether to seek the removal of board members who have been praised by the former president for changing election rules.
By Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey, The Washington PostGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks in the spin room before a presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump in Atlanta, June 27, 2024.
This week, Kemp asked Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr for an advisory opinion on what authority he has to address ethics complaints against the state board. Those who filed the complaints have said that state law requires the governor to remove the members if he finds their actions were inappropriate.
State and national Democrats sued this week in state court over the certification rule, arguing that it is intended to allow delays despite statutory language requiring certification to happen within six days of an election. The remarks prompted renewed fears that if Trump loses Georgia, as he did in 2020, he will again mount a pressure campaign on the officials responsible for fairly and impartially overseeing elections. Trump faces criminal charges both in federal court and in Georgia’s Fulton County related to his efforts to overturn his loss.
Trump called him “a bad guy,” “disloyal” and “a very average governor.” None of the jabs were in the teleprompter or prepared speech, and staff members learned later that he had been given information about Kemp that angered him just before the event, including a report of Kemp’s opposition to what the election board was doing, according to two advisers to the former president.
In a measure of Georgia’s importance to the presidential vote, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are touring the state this week.
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