A political action committee associated with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) knocked former President Trump with a poll showing him under-performing a generic Republican candidate in the state, ahead of the former president’s visit this weekend.
The survey from Hardworking Americans Inc. showed Trump virtually tied with President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 election matchup. While 42 percent of Georgia voters said they would support the former president, 41.4 percent said they would back the incumbent.
However, a generic GOP candidate polled 10 points ahead of Biden in a hypothetical matchup, with 48 percent supporting the Republican and 38 percent the sitting president.
“The road to the White House runs through Georgia, but it hits a dead end if Republicans nominate candidates next year who struggle to win general elections,” Cody Hall, the executive director of Hardworking Americans, said in a Twitter post.
Trump is set to make an appearance at the Georgia Republican Convention on Saturday, while Kemp and other top state officials have reportedly decided not to attend the event.
The Georgia governor and former president have publicly feuded since Kemp declined to acquiesce to Trump’s pressure campaign to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the Peach State.
Trump allegedly called Kemp in December 2020 and urged him to convene a special session of the legislature to overturn Biden’s victory in the state. About a month later, the former president would also make his now-infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 more votes for him.
Trump backed former Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R) in his bid to unseat Kemp in 2022. However, Kemp ultimately beat Perdue by more than 50 points in the Republican primary before going on to win reelection.
The jab at the former president comes the day after he was notified that he would face charges in the investigation into his handling of classified documents. The poll, however, was conducted ahead of Thursday’s indictment news.
The survey was conducted by Cygnal on June 5-7 with 600 likely general election voters in Georgia. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.99 percentage points.