Sean Hannity of Fox News called on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to abandon his reelection campaign so conservatives can rally behind David Perdue.
The Republicans launched a series of attacks against the former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and voting-rights activist who narrowly lost the governor's race to Kemp.
After months of attacks from former President Donald Trump, Kemp's standing among conservatives has deteriorated, which is different from last year.
The governor has become a pariah among many GOP activists due to his refusal to help Trump overturn the electoral victory of President Joe Biden in the state last fall.
On his evening show, Hannity paid less attention to GOP victories in the state and more to Kemp's political standing among the party faithful.
He said that Kemp should probably bow out of the race because he was not effective as a governor. I hope David Perdue gets in because I think he is the candidate to watch. He would be a better candidate.
Herschel Walker would be hurt by Kemp staying in the Senate race. Kemp isn't well-liked. I don't think he would be a good top of the ticket for the Republicans.
Perdue was ousted from the Senate in a January election in which he was a candidate.
The former senator is being pitched as a unity candidate by Trump, who feels that followers of his Make America Great Again movement will not support Kemp.
Walker is the front-runner in the GOP Senate primary, which will determine who will go up against Raphael Warnock, who was elected in a separate January 2021.
Democrats are banking on the growing diversity of Atlanta's suburbs and the fact that Republicans are trying to win both races in a state that has been a conservative redoubt to help them in the election.
While also serving as a key surrogate for Biden, Ossoff, and Warnock last year, she has spent the last few years focused on her national voting-rights organization, Fair Fight Action.
If Kemp andAbrams win their party's nominations, it will set up a second contest.
Newt Gingrich, who was Speaker of the House from 1979 to 1999 and represented much of the northern Atlanta suburbs in Congress, wrote last month that Perdue could unify the GOP and faulted Kemp for his poor standing with Trump.
He wrote that Kemp has followed a policy of "purging Trump supporters and trying to move to the center at the expense of the majority of the Republican Party."
The result of the Kemp decision to double down on his fight with President Trump has destroyed the governor's ability to win a general election.
