Third place 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary finisher Kandiss Taylor, a QAnon freak who campaigned from a bus with “Jesus, Guns, Babies” emblazoned on the side, won this weekend’s race for GOP chair of Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
It was just one of several races in which the extremist “Georgia Republican Assembly” faction’s candidates defeated more “moderate” Republicans in what the AJC describes as the reason why the actual elected GOP officials in the state, such as Governor Brian Kemp and members of the legislature, have moved to build campaign infrastructure separate and apart from the state party.
“The party apparatus is, unfortunately, an entity that continues to choose irrelevance,” said lobbyist Cole Muzio of Frontline Policy Council. “Outside groups and individual campaigns have supplanted the GOP.” Former Cobb County GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd says he’s done with the state GOP too. “I don’t recognize the GOP anymore, and I’ve decided it’s time to devote my energies to better purposes, like actually helping elect Republican candidates,” said Shepherd.