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February 22, 2026

Brian Kemp

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After water war victory, Georgia will let Florida farmers drill new irrigation wells

December 28, 2024 Jeff Amy

ATLANTA — Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be economically impossible without water to irrigate his crops. “I’d be out of business,” said Cox, who farms 3,000 acres […]

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suspending state gas and diesel taxes again

September 12, 2023 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor is again suspending state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, declaring a legal emergency over higher prices. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the executive order Tuesday morning. The suspension of the taxes, […]

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Efforts to punish Fani Willis over Trump prosecution are ‘political theater,’ Georgia Gov. Kemp says

September 8, 2023 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last week offered his strongest denunciation to date of efforts by his fellow Republicans to go after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, dismissing the moves as “political theater […]

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Kemp done being underestimated, aims to steer GOP past Trump

January 15, 2023 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is done being underestimated.  Having vanquished both a Donald Trump-backed Republican challenger and Democratic star Stacey Abrams to win reelection, Kemp is looking to expand his influence in his […]

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Record fundraising in Georgia governor’s race nears $170M

November 4, 2022 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Big money continues to roll into Georgia’s governor’s race even as Republican incumbent Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams have already blown through the records they set in 2018. Abrams has raised […]

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Georgia’s shifting politics force GOP to look beyond Atlanta

September 13, 2022 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

TOCCOA, Ga. — When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made one of his first general election campaign swings in August, he went straight to the modern heartland of the state’s Republican Party. It wasn’t Buckhead, the […]

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Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be pricey, long and ugly

June 3, 2022 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary in which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp demolished GOP challenger David Perdue and Democrat Stacey Abrams […]

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Kemp and Walker look to victory in Georgia as primaries near

May 23, 2022 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

WATKINSVILLE, Ga. — Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary majorities as candidates make their final pitches to Georgia voters on Saturday ahead of Tuesday’s election. Gov. Brian Kemp and former football star Herschel […]

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Pence to rally with Kemp in Georgia in break with Trump

May 23, 2022 Jill Colvin, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Former Vice President Mike Pence will campaign with Georgia’s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month’s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President Donald Trump […]

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Georgia’s Kemp and Perdue clash over elections in debate

April 26, 2022 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — The top two Republicans running for governor in Georgia launched the first of three debates Sunday by bickering over who was responsible for 2020 and 2021 Republican election losses, with former U.S. Sen. […]

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