SCOOP: Former VP Pence's chief of staff Marc Short has joined the campaign staff of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Trump has trashed Kemp and endorsed challenger David Perdue after the governor rejected Trump's demands to overturn the state's 2020 results.
in their May 24 primary, though, and Short has been brought in to turbocharge the governor's national fundraising ahead of a potential general election re-match with Stacey Abrams.
Short has also been advising Kemp's team on broader political strategy, according to a source familiar with the arrangement.Short's move to join one of Trump’s most prominent GOP targets illuminates the deepening fault lines inside the party — and between Trump and his former vice president.Short is closely aligned with Pence — and now working for a candidate whoGeorgia not only went for Joe Biden in 2020 but sent two Democrats to the Senate in January 2021.
In a tele-rally Monday, Trump predicted a Kemp primary victory could hurt other Republicans in November,
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