Jonathan Lemire Explains How Trump Put GA in Play For Dems [VIDEO]

Jonathan Lemire says Donald Trump's decision to attack popular GOP Governor Brian Kemp helped put Georgia in play for the Democrats.

Donald Trump lost the state of Georgia to Joe Biden in 2020, but that wasn't expected to be the case again in 2024. Things changed, though, when Kamala Harris took over the nomination and her polling in the state looks quite a bit better. 

Trump also likes to self-sabotage, and according to Jonathan Lemire from MSNBC, that is helping Harris, too. 

"Georgia arrived as a swing state ahead of schedule in 2020 because of Trump's poor performance in office," Lemire explained. "Then, of course, no one anticipated Democrats would get both Senate seats [in 2022], but Trump, while fighting the big lie, you know, refused to go down and campaign. The one event he had was a screed against all the Republicans there, it turned off GOP voters. Democrats get both seats and then the majority of the upper chamber."

The MSNBC host thinks that the Republicans can't figure out how to respond to the new candidate. "The Trump campaign has no answer yet how to respond to her. He's rattled by the crowd size, obviously. Look, they both filled that arena, but Harris could do it. Biden, that was something he couldn't do."

Lemire closed, "It can't be said enough, Brian Kemp is really popular in Georgia. With Harris at the top of the ticket and Trump reigniting this feud with Kemp, a couple Republicans said to me over the weekend, Georgia is very much in play right now. They feel like it could slip away from Republicans."