"I think in particular now more than ever, we need to be showing support for those the Trump administration has been targeting," Romman told The Advocate on Saturday. "Especially if you're an elected official, this is the time to show up. Sometimes showing up really is the only thing we can do, but if that's the only thing, we should be doing it."
Vernon Jones, a former Democratic state representative who switched parties in support of President Donald Trump, announced Monday he's running to become Georgia's top election official. Jones, who has called himself the "Black Donald Trump," ran for Congress in 2022 with Trump's endorsement, bolstering the president's false claims that Georgia's 2020 election was stolen from him. "Trust in our elections has been shaken," Jones said in a video announcing his campaign for secretary of state.
For much of the past decade, Republican politics in the increasingly crucial swing state of Georgia has been dominated by two men whose relationship has been complex and fascinating: Donald Trump and Brian Kemp. Both the two-term president and the two-term governor are lame ducks who still dominate their domains like no one else. And their collision in 2020 over Trump's "stolen elections" claims, which Kemp refused to countenance, continues to have a major effect on the Georgia GOP
