{"id":1031695,"date":"2024-05-13T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1031695"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:54:50","slug":"icymi-following-trumps-extremism-the-ga-gop-descends-further-into-chaos-and-maga-infighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-following-trumps-extremism-the-ga-gop-descends-further-into-chaos-and-maga-infighting\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Following Trump\u2019s Extremism, the GA GOP Descends Further into Chaos and MAGA Infighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than a week out from their annual convention, Georgia Republicans are descending further into turmoil as their fractured state party continues to fight amongst themselves. This is yet another example of how Donald Trump\u2019s leadership has left the state party in disarray as they pinch pennies trying to cover the legal fees of election deniers while their own extreme MAGA Republican Governor Brian Kemp refuses to help his own state party raise money. Whether they\u2019re ousting members of their party\u2019s leadership or struggling to pay mounting legal bills, the Georgia GOP continues to exemplify how Donald Trump\u2019s leadership is leading Republicans further and further into chaos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cWith many mainstream Republicans following Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s lead and steering clear of the organization, a MAGA-friendly activist base led by former state Sen. Josh McKoon has taken the reins of the party. On his watch, the party has tried to restore ties with state leaders while steering more than $1.8 million toward the legal defense of a trio of party figures charged in the Fulton County election interference case. But that hasn\u2019t quelled the feuding within the party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politically-georgia\/pg-am-internal-feuds-flare-ahead-of-georgia-gop-annual-convention\/34FFRZ6ABZGU3L5QCVYHSVVRIY\/\"><strong>AJC<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Internal feuds flare ahead of Georgia GOP annual convention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A week before hundreds of activists gather in Columbus for the Georgia GOP\u2019s annual convention, the party is facing new internal turmoil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With many mainstream Republicans following Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s lead and steering clear of the organization, a MAGA-friendly activist base led by former state Sen. Josh McKoon has taken the reins of the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On his watch, the party has tried to restore ties with state leaders while steering more than $1.8 million toward the legal defense of a trio of party figures charged in the Fulton County election interference case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But that hasn\u2019t quelled the feuding within the party.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The latest came Friday when party activists voted to strip first vice chair Brian Pritchard of his leadership post after a judge ruled he voted illegally nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Though the vote was overwhelming, Pritchard framed himself as a political martyr and complained that party leaders \u201cmarched\u201d him out of the meeting after he lost the vote. He still plans to attend the convention on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>McKoon said Pritchard was escorted out after he tried to hold an unauthorized news conference outside the meeting with an unnamed ally who was \u201ctrespassing on private property.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He also said he hopes to release a video and transcript of the meeting \u201cso people can judge for themselves what took place.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pritchard won\u2019t be the only far-right figure jockeying for attention during the two-day GOP gathering in west Georgia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tea party organizer Amy Kremer is running against Ginger Howard for a seat on the powerful Republican National Committee. Kremer boasts of helping to organize the rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that preceded the mob storming the building.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jason Thompson, another of Georgia\u2019s RNC members, is in a three-way race with David Cross, a far-right election conspiracist who is the party\u2019s second vice-chair; and Jason Frazier, who has challenged nearly 10,000 voter registrations under Georgia\u2019s 2021 election law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week out from their annual convention, Georgia Republicans are descending further into turmoil as their fractured state party continues to fight amongst themselves. This is yet another example of how Donald Trump\u2019s leadership has left the state party in disarray as they pinch pennies trying to cover the legal fees of election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Following Trump\u2019s Extremism, the GA GOP Descends Further into Chaos and MAGA Infighting - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-following-trumps-extremism-the-ga-gop-descends-further-into-chaos-and-maga-infighting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-13T20:32:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:54:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-following-trumps-extremism-the-ga-gop-descends-further-into-chaos-and-maga-infighting\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-following-trumps-extremism-the-ga-gop-descends-further-into-chaos-and-maga-infighting\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Following Trump\u2019s Extremism, the GA GOP Descends Further into Chaos and MAGA Infighting - 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