OPINION: A memo to national media - Brian Kemp is no moderate savior

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"There seems to be a thought among national pundits that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp could be the superhero they’re looking for to swoop into the 2024 GOP presidential field and defeat Donald Trump.

At the moment, Trump seems destined to win the GOP nomination, but appears incapable of winning the White House again, so who could blame Republicans for looking for someone to save the day?

"Apart from the fact that about half of Republicans don’t think they need to be saved from Trump, there are two reasons why Kemp won’t play the moderate savior some are looking for. The first is the simple fact that Kemp is not running for president. Not only has he never campaigned in Iowa, he has never been to Iowa or New Hampshire as governor. That is not the itinerary of a man looking to run for the White House in six months.

That lack of early-state travel could be solved with some fancy scheduling. But an underlying piece of the draft-Kemp calculus seems to be an assumption, or maybe even a hope among news analysts outside of Georgia, that Kemp’s moderate tone and demeanor in public mean he is also moderate in his politics.

But they should know that the Georgia governor is nobody’s moderate. He’s not even close." by Patricia Murphy

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