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 Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp official State of Georgia headshot

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Gov. Kemp is officially out of the running for U.S. Senate

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2026, leaving the Republican primary to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff wide open.

May 05, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
Harris in Atlanta

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Republicans for Harris launches as an unlikely coalition to challenge Trump

Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign launched a new initiative called Republicans for Harris. The effort seeks to win over Republican voters who are looking for an alternative to former President Donald Trump. The coalition has already garnered support from prominent Republicans, including Olivia Troye, a homeland security adviser in the Trump administration. She spoke with GPB's Pamela Kirkland.

August 06, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
 Gov. Brian Kemp has said he plans to use his “leadership committee” to influence state legislative races this year. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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Federal lawsuit challenges constitutionality of blank check ‘leadership committees’

The Democratic Party of Georgia is challenging the constitutionality of a 2021 state law that allows Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and others to raise and spend unlimited campaign funds.

July 19, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
Aubrey Clark stands with a Trump 2024 sign on the side of Eisenhower Parkway on Monday, July 15, 2024, in Lizella, Georgia. A half dozen supporters, including members of the Bibb County Republican Party, gathered to show their support for former president Trump two days after an attempted assassination attempt on him in Pennsylvania. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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Small crowds rally across Bibb County in response to Trump assassination attempt

Behind a rubber face mask of former President Donald Trump was Macon-Bibb County Republican Party Chair David Sumrall on the side of a highway Monday morning. Members of the Bibb County GOP kicked off a day-long series of rallies at 7 a.m. in response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

July 16, 2024
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  • Jesse Fraga
Located less than an hour outside Madison, Wis., Columbia County has both city commuters and people in more rural, small towns. Portage, with a population of around 10,000, is the largest town in the county.

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One voted Biden. One picked Trump. It's a tale of two counties in pivotal Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of a handful of pivotal states in the 2024 presidential election. Within the swing state, there are swing counties that could decide the election — even as people remain divided.

May 22, 2024
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han
Supporters cheer as former President Donald Trump speaks at the Waco Regional Airport last spring in Waco, Texas.

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  • Politics

Young conservatives have grown up in Trump's Republican Party. Now, it's time to vote

With nearly a decade on the national political stage, for some of the youngest eligible conservative voters this year, former President Donald Trump has been pivotal in their political upbringing.

March 19, 2024
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  • Elena Moore
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally March 9 in Rome, Ga., just one day after Republicans met in Houston to elect new leadership for the party. All of the candidates were hand-selected by Trump.

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RNC sees major cuts to staff as new, Trump-backed leadership takes over

More than 60 people were fired, including senior staff in the political data and communications departments, according to a person familiar with the layoffs.

March 12, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden unofficially kicked off the general election campaign with rallies in Georgia Saturday, March 9, 2024.

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Georgia on the mind of the Trump and Biden campaigns as the key state holds primary

Georgia is an important state for both former President Donald Trump and President Biden in 2024. It's also a state with the clearest examples of the obstacles each faces in his path to victory.

March 12, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Monday she'll step down from her post on March 8.

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RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she'll step down March 8

The decision is not a surprise. McDaniel previously said she'd step down after the South Carolina primary, which was held Saturday.

February 26, 2024
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley talks to the media after voting Saturday in Kiawah Island, S.C. Haley called former President Donald Trump's comments about Black voters "disgusting."

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  • Politics

Haley calls Trump's 'disgusting' comments about Black people a 'huge warning sign'

Nikki Haley says inflammatory comments Donald Trump made about Black people Friday is more proof he will hurt the GOP in the November general election.

February 24, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump listen while he speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University on Feb. 10 in Conway, S.C.

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What GOP infighting in South Carolina can (and can't) tell us about 2024

In Horry County, South Carolina, a squabble over who is the official county party sheds light on struggles the GOP faces more broadly in 2024.

February 22, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake arrives for a rally with Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, during the New Hampshire presidential primary on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

After seeming to bribe Senate hopeful Kari Lake not to run, Arizona GOP chair resigns

The now-former head of the state's Republican Party accused Lake of leaking a recording in which he offers compensation if she will take "a pause for a couple of years" from running for public office.

January 25, 2024
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  • Ben Giles
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson speaks during the Florida Freedom Summit held at the Gaylord Palms Resort on Nov. 4, 2023 in Kissimmee, Florida.

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  • Elections

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is out of the presidential race

Hutchinson, who didn't shy away from criticizing the GOP front-runner — former President Donald Trump — has announced he will no longer seek his party's nomination.

January 16, 2024
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  • Jeongyoon Han
Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney talks about her new book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning," with NPR's Leila Fadel Friday during her interview for Morning Edition.

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  • Politics

Democracy is at stake if Trump is reelected, Liz Cheney warns in her new book

Liz Cheney's book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning slams Trump's efforts to stay in power after 2020 and the Republicans who enabled him. She tells NPR why voters should mobilize against him.

December 04, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A crowd of mostly Evangelical Christians waves U.S. and Israeli flags during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) "Night to Honor Israel" event during the CUFI Summit 2023 on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va.

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  • Politics

This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel

The GOP hasn't always been so focused on Israel, but evangelicals, partisan sorting and neoconservatism all helped change that. Those ties take center stage now as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.

October 19, 2023
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
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