How Trump Can Earn My Vote After Disastrous Atlanta Rally

11,780.

That is the 2020 margin of victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in Georgia. That is 0.23% of the total vote. So, one would think a smart politician would be doing their best to appeal to as many voters as they possibly could to avoid a similar result when seeking the presidency for a second time in a state that has proven to be winnable for Republicans.

Donald Trump may very well believe that the 2020 election was stolen from him. But at this point that should not matter.

The price of everything is higher. Traditional values are being labeled backward and sometimes even called evil. Young people may never be able to afford their own homes. And the Democrats, in collusion with the media, hid the faltering mental acuity of the sitting President and replaced him with a guano-level-crazy liberal who has failed at her delegated responsibility of securing the border, has called for forced universal healthcare, mandatory gun buy backs, closing down American industries, and shutting off America’s ability to be energy independent. That is her record.

And with the murder of Laken Riley in broad daylight of an Athens afternoon at the hands of an illegal alien, this should be an absolute, no-brainer slam dunk for Donald Trump.

In what should have been an early victory lap for Donald Trump as he held a packed house rally at Georgia State’s Convocation Center in Atlanta, he instead fumbled the ball on the 3-yard line and handed the momentum to the Democrats in the Peach State. Instead of focusing on laying out his vision for the country, he took the opportunity to not only slam the most popular Republican in Georgia, but also his wife.

Trump’s Kemp bashing was not reserved just for social media as he continued to skewer Kemp from the rally stage. It got so bad, that GOP uber activist, Kathy Dudley Wortham, who had been in attendance at the rally, got up and left.

I reached out to Kathy to ask her permission to share her post, and she added this:

“I had truly hoped to hear Trump deliver an olive branch to Kemp. I could be team Kemp AND team Trump. It is possible. Had Trump followed the lead of McKoon and bashed Duncan, I could live with that. Instead, he targeted Brian Kemp and Marty? Lowbrow. I realized that I’m not voting for the leader of Sunday School. I can tolerate grown-up language. I tolerate the difference of opinion. I respect other’s views. I felt a range of emotions. I gave Trump one “hit” on Brian Kemp, but left on the second. On the ride home, I listened in disgust as the insults just kept coming. When you’re a guest I someone’s home, you don’t berate the homeowner….unless you’re family. In the south, we call that ‘Thanksgiving.'”

There are some folks out there who are criticizing Brian Kemp for not being in attendance, so we reached out to Cody Hall, long time spokesperson for Governor Kemp, who confirmed the governor was not invited. I didn’t have to check with Secretary Raffensperger’s team after that, because we all know Trump ain’t going to invite him to anything.

In the Biden-Trump debate, Trump claimed that he could prevent or end wars with a phone call. So why, when the stakes are Georgia’s electoral votes, would you not demonstrate that ability? Maybe because you actually are not capable of doing that.

After Trump’s assassination attempt, many Republicans in Georgia who had doubted they could press the button for him one more time had begun the journey of returning to voting for Trump. Among those is Matthew Krull, the current Republican and former Solicitor General for Douglas County. Krull encapsulated that journey in a well written Facebook post.

Ok, get ready to be triggered…

They way that Trump conducted himself in the Georgia US Senate runoff in 2020 brought me to the belief that I would have never voted for him again (essentially tanking Loeffler’s and Perdue’s chances to win because if they won their runoffs, Mitch McConnell would have been the leader of the Republican Party and instead of Trump).

Then when he said that Stacy Abrams would have been a better Governor than Brian Kemp put the nail in the coffin for me voting for him ever again.

Then there was an awakening when the Democrats prosecuted and convicted him for some horseshit charges that they have never prosecuted anyone else for. I started rethinking my decision to never vote for him again.

Then when I saw the elder abuse being committed against Joe Biden during the debate, I thought that the shadow government that was propping Joe needed to be stopped. I was starting to come around to the idea of voting for Trump in November.

Then last month, when someone attempted to murder Trump, I was shaken to my core. Not because it was Trump, but because no person should ever killed because of politics. I came to the realization that I was fairly certain that I would cast my vote for Trump for a third time in November.

Trump had been mellowing over the last few months. He was being targeted legally and physically because of politics. I was back on the Trump train.

Then today for no particular reason he decides to attack Governor Brian Kemp and Marty Kemp. I have quickly gotten off the train at the next station.

Mr. Trump, the election is less 100 days away, you still need to earn my vote.

Maybe the #gagop and #gagra will get the message to him that he should talk about inflation, cost of goods, immigration, housing costs, the destruction of women’s athletics, rather than attacking a very popular elected official in Georgia and his family. (And in full transparency, someone I like a whole lot more than Trump).

The clock is ticking, do [you] want my vote?

Matthew Krull’s Facebook Post 8/3/2023

11, 780. Point zero two-three percent. Every vote is needed, and all Trump did at his Atlanta Rally is solidify his base while sticking a finger in the eye of the people he actually needs to win this state.

As for me, I am not a “Never-Trump” guy. Trump can, in fact, still earn my vote. To do so, all he needs to do is lick the bottom of Brian Kemp’s shoes clean after he has accidentally stepped in a pile of dog crap at one of Marty Kemp’s pet adoption events at the Governor’s Mansion. And I am going to need to see it in person. After that, I will gladly vote for Trump, but not until then.

In case any Republican activists out there don’t believe that the rally was anything other than a disaster, I will leave you with a litany of screenshots from various Republican elected officials, activists, media personalities, and politicos from around the state. And for those fools who would blame these people for having this reaction instead of holding your candidate accountable for his inability to do what it takes to win, please reserve all manure deposits for the farm.

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Update: This article original referenced Attorney General Chris Carr not being invited to the rally. We were operating off of incorrect information. We are told that an invitation was made the Thursday evening before the rally on Saturday. At any rate, a Facebook post by Carr showed he was in Athens moving his daughter in for the fall semester at UGA. We regret the error, and blame others. That said. Governor Kemp was not invited. If Trump can end wars with a phone call, we cannot help but wonder why he started one at a rally.