Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he didn't vote for anyone in the GOP presidential primary election

"I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody," Gov. Brian Kemp said.

Published: June 27, 2024 9:08pm

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said that he did not vote for any candidate in the state's GOP primary election in March.

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Kemp said, "I didn’t vote for anybody. I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody.

"I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here," he added, later noting, "I always try to go vote and, you know, play a part in it, but look at that point, it didn’t really matter."

Trump won the Georgia primary election in March with 84.5% of the vote.

Kemp said that he would support the GOP ticket in the general election.

“He was the presumptive nominee before the primary ever got here,” the governor said of Trump. “I mean, I didn’t support anybody in the race. I was thinking about it but, you know, just because a lot of circumstances and the way things played out, didn’t end up doing that, but said all along for the most part that I would support the ticket, and that’s what I’ve always done and that’s what I’m doing this November.”

Kemp's comments came the day before the start of the first presidential debate in Atlanta.

Trump and Kemp have had a rocky relationship since after the 2020 presidential election, as the former claimed election fraud occurred in Georgia while the latter said it did not.

In the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial primary election, Trump supported Kemp's challenger, former Sen. David Perdue.

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