{"id":42259,"date":"2025-05-07T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42259"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:11:09","slug":"a-star-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/07\/a-star-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A Star Is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican star – no matter how much I don’t like his refusal to recuse back in his first run for governor against Stacey Abrams (D-GA) – and Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) is out of the running<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Governor Brian Kemp (R) just formally announced he\u2019s not going to run for Senate next year against Senator Jon Ossoff (D). It\u2019s difficult to convey how big a coup this is for Democrats and how big a setback it is for Republicans for the 2026 midterms. Candidate choice is always important but seldom decisive. This is an exception. Ossoff was (and is) a favorite against everyone but Kemp. [Josh Marshall, TPM<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s voluntary<\/em>. I agreed with Mr Marshall, above – only Kemp could give Senator Ossoff (D-GA) a real contest, and Governor Kemp is signaling that, in a year and a half, he doesn’t think he can beat the Senator.<\/p>\n

Now, Marshall thinks Kemp has Presidential ambitions, and he might. But getting a Senator’s seat builds momentum – but losing such a race could destroy Kemp’s chances in a Presidential race. No one likes a loser, which explains why then- and now- President Trump ran around screaming about Democratic cheating in 2020. It wasn’t just that he couldn’t accept being a loser, but it also endangered his chances of re-attaining the Presidency.<\/p>\n

And winning back the legal sanctuary of the Presidency.<\/p>\n

In any case, if Kemp foresees disaster in a friendly, conservative-if-purple State, well, it could make next year’s election very<\/em> interesting for the balance of the Senatorial races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican star – no matter how much I don’t like his refusal to recuse back in his first run for governor against Stacey Abrams (D-GA) – and Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) is out of the running: Governor Brian Kemp (R) just formally announced he\u2019s not going to run for Senate \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42260,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259\/revisions\/42260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}