The Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, Brian Kemp, told attending donors during a ticketed campaign event that he was worried that the people of his state might try and exercise their right to vote, according to an audio leak obtained by Rolling Stone.
Kemp, who is also Georgia's Secretary of State, is running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams. During the event, he lamented her efforts aimed at increasing her voter turnout, saying that it "continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote."
Kemp said that ahead of the gubernatorial race, he was worried about early voting and "the literally tens of millions of dollars that they [the Abrams camp] are putting behind the get-out-the-vote effort to their base." He elucidated that he was particularly concerned with Abrams' efforts, mostly focused on absentee ballot requests.
"They have just an unprecedented number of that... which is something that continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can — and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that."
