With Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp set to be the party's standard bearer in the state's gubernatorial election this fall, former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he might back the governor in November.
While speaking with Fox News, the former president didn't rule out an endorsement as the fall election approaches.
He didn't say anything about his current feelings about Kemp.
After nearly two years of attacking Kemp, Trump accused him of failing to bolster his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
After watching Joe Biden narrowly win Georgia in November 2020 and pressing Kemp to help overturn the results, Trump has spent an enormous amount of energy in an effort to undermine the governor.
Not only did Kemp win the GOP primary this past May, but he defeated Perdue in an electoral landslide, and will go on to faceAbrams in the race for Georgia's top job.
If a vocal show of support were to happen, it would be a huge breakthrough.
Kemp beat Cagle after Trump endorsed him in the GOP primary.
Cagle won the initial multi-candidate primary with a plurality of the vote, but no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, so the top two candidates advanced to a primary. Kemp defeated Cagle by 40 percentage points after Trump endorsed him.
Kemp's political rise was influenced by Trump's support.
In what was the closest governor's race in Georgia in 50 years, Kemp narrowly defeated Abrams by about 55,000 votes.
The then-president immediately cast doubt on the results when he defeated Trump in the state by roughly 12,000 votes out of nearly 5 million ballots cast.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Kemp refused to help overturn Biden's win.
Trump said during a Fox News interview that he was ashamed to have supported Kemp.
Lin Wood, an attorney, called for the jailing of Kemp and Raffensperger for not challenging the Georgia election results.
The political futures of both state officials were thrown into question when Trump railed against them throughout the year.
Georgia Republicans might have been better off ifAbrams had defeated Kemp.
Republican voters had differing opinions on Kemp and Raffensperger.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raffensperger defeated Jody Hice in a comfortable victory that stunned the former president.
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