With Kemp as Chair, RGA Digs In on Extremism and Deepens Trump RiftLatest News Year in Review

Today, the Republican Governors Association announced that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will serve as the organization's new chair, signaling a continued commitment to extreme and unpopular attacks on Americans' freedoms that will continue to cost them in pivotal governor's races in 2025 and 2026.

Gov. Kemp brings to the role a record of opposing full Medicaid expansion, repeatedly waging war on public education, and signing an extreme abortion ban.

He is one of the many recent RGA chairs to enter the role with a long and public history of feuding with Donald Trump, including Kim Reynolds and Doug Ducey. The RGA's relationship with Trump was so bad in 2021 and 2022 that they had to spend millions protecting GOP incumbents - including Kemp - from primary challengers recruited and endorsed by Trump.

"Brian Kemp represents the harmful agenda and failures of Republican governors across the country who are refusing to expand and lower the cost of health care, attacking public education, and ripping away reproductive rights," said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. "In contrast, Democratic governors remain relentlessly focused on making life better for families in their states and working nonstop to protect fundamental freedoms.""The only question now is who's going to tell Trump that they've once again put another one of his adversaries at the helm."