Things are far from peachy in the Georgia US Senate race.

State and national party officials are furious at Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s tactics after a PAC backed by the governor smoked two sitting Republicans and blamed them for the shutdown while talking up Kemp’s preferred candidate in the race – former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley.

“They all failed and shut down the government,” the ad says –– one of the first to weaponize the shutdown in a major race. The move incensed the two candidates who got blamed, GOP House members Mike Collins and Buddy Carter, who had each voted for “clean” bills to keep the government open.

There are already fears in Republican circles that the infighting puts the effort to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff at risk.

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