Former President Donald Trump is still the most popular and powerful politician in the Republican Party and his support in the 2022 round remains the most coveted, but the former president suffered another heavy defeat in Georgia on Tuesday. Four weeks after a triad of Trump-backed candidates in the Georgia Republican primary was ousted, two more candidates backed by the former president were crushed in the GOP congressional by-elections. CLICK HERE FOR THE LAST MAIN RESULTS FROM FOX NEWS But while Trump’s huge influence in the Democratic Party dealt another blow to Georgia, the America First movement was once again the winner, as the two primary winners were Trump-type conservatives who support the former president’s policies. Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. (Photo by Sean Rayford / Getty Images) (Getty Images) In the second round of the 10th Congressional District of Georgia, Trump-backed Vernon Jones was defeated by Mike Collins, the owner of a truck company. According to unofficial results, Collins garnered nearly three times as many votes as Jones, a former state lawmaker and Republican who became a Republican who was the top black deputy to then-president Peach in the 2020 election. LIVE CAPITAL RESULTS AT FOX NEWS POLLING STATION The area, which is reliably red, stretches from the suburbs east of Atlanta through rural areas east to the outskirts of Augusta and the South Carolina border. Collins will be considered the frontrunner for the winner of the Democratic primary in the district, in the race to succeed Republican MP Jodi Hayes, who launched an unsuccessful campaign for Georgia’s secretary of state instead of seeking re-election. Collins was ousted last week by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, just three weeks after Kemp ousted former Sen. David Pardew, who was a leading challenger to the Conservative governor with much support from Trump. Kemp outscored Perdue by more than 50 points in last month’s Republican primary, a disappointing defeat for Trump. Kemp had angered Trump for certifying the electoral defeat of then-president Biden in Georgia in the 2020 election. GEORGIA GOVERNMENT KEMP SUPPORTS MIKE COLLINS AGAINST VERNON JOHNS SUPPORTS TRUMP Perdue was not the only high-profile Trump-backed candidate to lose the Georgia primary. Hitche lost a double-digit number to Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger, whom Trump had also repeatedly attacked. And Trump’s attorney general, John Gordon, was ousted by incumbent Chris Carr. Jones was originally running for governor this round, hoping to land support for Trump in the by-elections against Kemp. But after approving Pardew, the former president persuaded Jones to end his candidacy for governor and instead run for Hayes’s open seat in Congress. Trump approved Jones as he began his candidacy for Parliament. Collins shouted at Kemp in his keynote address, thanking the governor for his support. CLICK HERE FOR THE LAST FOX NEWS REPORT FROM THE CAMPAIGN ROUTE “Trump’s anger has outweighed his influence in Georgia,” Georgia-based veteran Republican adviser Dan McLagan told Fox News. “Kemp’s stake in Georgia is much higher than Trump’s at the moment.” Although Collins did not win the support of the former president in the by-elections, he ran as a candidate in favor of Trump. Collins describes himself as a “conservative fighter” and “America first, in favor of Trump, an underdog.” In the 6th Congressional District of Georgia, which covers mostly rural areas north of Atlanta, Trump-backed Jake Evans was severely defeated by Dr. Rich McCormick. The former president had a front-page teleconference on the eve of the qualifiers for Evans, former chairman of the Georgia Ethics Committee and son of Randy Evans, who served as ambassador to Luxembourg during the Trump administration. McCormick was backed by Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, as well as the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative outside group that spends a lot on the Republican primary. The race was the third high-profile Republican primary in the past two months, when Trump and Cruz – who could be potential rivals in the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential race – backed their rivals. McCormick, similar to Collins, ran as a Trump-type candidate, even when facing an opponent backed by the former president. SEE THE LATEST POWER 2022 FOX NEWS RANKINGS “I’m waiting for Donald Trump to call us because we will be friends together and move on together because this is the party,” McCormick said in his keynote address. “It should not concern any former president. It should not concern a future president. It should concern a party that understands what is at stake here.” It was a different story in neighboring Alabama on Tuesday night, where the Trump-backed candidate easily won the second round of the GOP Senate in the race to succeed Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, who is retiring after nearly 45 years in Congress. Katie Britt, a former Shelby’s longtime aide who served as the senator’s staff from 2016-2018 and later became the first female president and CEO of the Alabama Business Council, defeated MP Mo Brooks, who was a from Trump’s top allies. within the home. Trump backed Brooks last year, when the lawmaker was first in the race, but the former president withdrew his support earlier this year as Brooks struggled in the polls. And after criticizing Brit last year, Trump praised her for approving her a week ago, after new polls showed Brit was growing. However, the approval put Trump in the bizarre position of backing the most established candidate in the race, whose campaign was also bolstered by allies of longtime GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, whom the former president strongly criticizes here. and almost a year and a half. SEPARATE DECISION ON TRUMP IN TWO HIGH-PROFILE SOUTH PROFILES OF SOUTH CAROLINA Tuesday’s results come a week after Trump made a separate decision in the South Carolina primary. As of last week, a Trump-backed candidate had not yet rejected an incumbent Republican lawmaker who had ousted the former president. But that changed last Tuesday as South Carolina lawmaker Russell Fry convincingly defeated five-time lawmaker Tom Rice in the credible red 7th Congressional District. But the former president did not get the scan he hoped for – as lawmaker Nancy Mace ran in the GOP primary in the state’s surprise 1st Congressional District to defeat former Trump-backed Katie Arrington. While Mays’s victory was a setback for Trump, it was a victory for another possible Republican candidate for president in 2024 – former South Carolina Gov. Nicki Haley – who had strongly supported Mays. Former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Leads Campaigning for Republican MP Nancy Mace in Summerville, South Carolina June 12, 2022 (Fox News) Trump has garnered a lot of approval this round and the winning percentage of candidates he backed in the primary remains high. But many of his supporters ran in undisputed or non-competitive primaries. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION In competitive races, Trump has suffered some high-profile defeats, in addition to his numerous failures in Georgia. While Trump’s approvals played a key role in the GOP by-elections for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Senates, the governors approved by the former president in Idaho and Nebraska lost both. Paul Steinhauser is a New Hampshire-based political reporter.
