Kemp Touts Georgia’s Economy, Doubts Whether Abrams Could Have Done As Well

Stumping for reelection, Brian Kemp has reminded voters of his leadership actions during recent adverse circumstances, how it’s turned out, and what might have happened if he hadn’t beaten Stacey Abrams for Georgia governor the first time in 2018.

Kemp, the incumbent Republican governor, said on Wednesday that his bold moves to reopen Georgia’s small businesses relatively soon after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has paid dividends with a strong economy and the state attracting sustained investment and new jobs.

He said his administration’s prudent finances enabled them to rebate $1 billion in taxes to Georgians this past year, and they plan to do it again in January.

He doubts that any of this would have transpired had Abrams been governor.

“We are working so hard every day to make sure that Stacey Abrams isn’t going to be our next governor or our next president,” he told a cheering crowd of supporters in Calhoun. The city is a center of carpet and flooring manufacturing about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta. Kemp spoke for about 20 minutes.

“We’re beating the bushes every single day, reminding people of the differences and where we would have been if Stacey Abrams was your governor.

“And if you remember how heavily she criticized me, along with the national media, along with the media in Atlanta, along with the health care pundits and a lot of other people, when I was the first governor in the country to reopen the small business economy.

“And y’all remember how much grief I took. And everybody’s saying, ‘You’re doing the wrong thing. This is a death experiment. You’re an idiot.’ Whatever,” he said.

“They were saying it all. But you know what? I wasn’t listening to them, I was listening to you all. I was listening to the people

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