Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp defeated a rival sponsored by Donald Trump in his party’s primary on Tuesday, marking the former president’s greatest defeat so far in his attempt to play kingmaker ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Georgia voters were still waiting to see if Secretary of State Brad Raffen-sperger could withstand Trump’s attempt to remove him from office.

After Kemp enraged Trump by refusing to try to overturn his loss in the 2020 election, Trump backed former U.S. Senator David Perdue. Kemp was declared the winner by Edison Research, with a 73 per cent to 23 per cent margin against Perdue.

Stacey Abrams, a leftist who won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, will face Kemp. In 2018, Kemp defeated Abrams.

“We’re going to do all we can to make sure Stacey Abrams doesn’t take over the state,” Perdue said Tuesday night to his supporters, vowing to back Kemp.

Trump did not have a completely unsuccessful night. Former American football great Herschel Walker, his choice for the Senate, comfortably won the Republican primary and will now face Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock on Nov. 8. In a runoff election after the March primary, Trump’s Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated state Land Commissioner George P. Bush.

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