For much of the past decade, Republican politics in the increasingly crucial swing state of Georgia has been dominated by two men whose relationship has been complex and fascinating: Donald Trump and Brian Kemp . Both the two-term president and the two-term governor are lame ducks who still dominate their domains like no one else. And their collision in 2020 over Trump’s “stolen elections” claims, which Kemp refused to countenance, continues to have a major effect on the Georgia GOP as it prepares for a high-stakes 2026 midterm election.

Most of the national attention to Georgia has revolved around Republican efforts to take down freshman senator Jon Ossoff , generally considered the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the upper chamber. Kemp himself was the ideal contestant f

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