Corey Lewandowski heads former President Donald Trump’s largest political action committee. In an interview yesterday with talk radio host John Fredericks, he indicated that the Georgia’s governor’s race, along with supporting opponents to Wyoming U.S. Rep. Lynn Cheney and Alaska’s U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will be the PAC’s top three fundraising priorities.
In the interview, Fredericks pressed Lewandowski on Georgia’s 2022 GOP governor’s primary, and the Trumper responded by saying that the former president hadn’t endorsed anyone for the May primary and that “the field hasn’t been fully developed yet.” He said, “We may see another individual in the race. Brian Kemp’s (poll) numbers are even worse than the secretary of state’s (Brad Raffensperger).” When further pressed, Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager acknowledged that Republicans don’t want to see the party lose Georgia’s governorship.
As for the Georgia Republican U.S. senatorial primary, Lewandowski also said the PAC would help candidate and University of Georgia football legend Herschel Walker be successful. (Walker is running against fellow Republicans Kelvin King, Latham Saddler, James Nestor and Gary Black.)
At the same time, the Washington, D.C.-based Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is touting a new, $30 million targeting campaign in Georgia and nine other battleground states for the 2022 general election. The DSCC’s Defend the Majority program is the largest investment in ground-field organizing it says it has ever made at this point in the election cycle.
As for who will be the 2022 Democrat gubernatorial nominee, no one seems to know if 2018 candidate Stacey Abrams wants to run again for the office. But observers agree she has plenty of time to decide.
