Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wins GOP primary despite Trump crusade against him, AP projects; he’ll face Stacey Abrams (D) in November
over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He has denied wrongdoing in all those cases. The accusations have made but a dent in the race — the result could be closer than widely expected, Dave Carney, a Republican strategist who has advised George H.W. Bush and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott , told Isaac.
The thing is, Republicans in Texas appear to no longer believe in the political dynasty of the past, as Isaac explains. The bottom line: Bush is not “MAGA” enough: George P. Bush ran with 100 percent name recognition, but the name was among his biggest weakness, according to political observers in the state. Forty percent of Texas Republican primary voters said they’d never vote for Bush, with two-thirds of them saying the reason was his name, according to a March survey by the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation.
The result about the Bush family name echoed an alarming finding early in the 2016 presidential campaign of Bush’s father, Jeb. When the campaign’s internal pollsters asked voters what they didn’t like about the candidate, about 40 percent gave an answer that amounted to the fact that his name was Bush, according to Tim Miller, who worked as the campaign’s spokesman. ...
“The Bush brand is not what Republican base voters are looking for right now,” Miller said. “It’s not like [George P. Bush] was some Bush third cousin, or the rebel in the family. He was very much the natural successor to the original Bush brand, and no matter how much he tried to change, people could smell it wasn’t authentic MAGA,” he said, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
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