It’s early yet in the vote-counting in today’s primaries in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas, but this much is clear: Brian Kemp has steamrolled David Perdue, who just conceded the race. Early vote tallies have Kemp up by even larger margins than Herschel Walker, who has already been called the winner of Georgia’s Senate primary against little-known opponents. Donald Trump staked a huge amount of his personal prestige and influence on toppling Kemp purely out of spite over Trump’s loss of Georgia in 2020, and while the jury is still out in some of the other Georgia Republican primaries, common sense and Kemp’s conservative record have triumphed tonight over the most debased forms of Trump sycophancy.
David Perdue was a good senator. He didn’t have to end his career this way. But he chose this path, and he richly deserved this ending.