A member of Congress who represents part of East Cobb has changed his endorsement in the Republican presidential primary.
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, who initially pledged support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said Tuesday that he will be backing former President Donald Trump, who easily won the New Hampshire primary.
DeSantis dropped out last week after finishing a distant second to Trump in the Iowa Caucuses.
Trump defeated former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the first primary of the 2024 election calendar in New Hampshire by a 54-43 percent margin.
The South Carolina primary is Feb. 24, and Haley has vowed to continue. Georgia’s presidential primaries are on March 12 but both Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden are expected to face off in a rematch of the 2020 election.
“After another overwhelming victory, it’s abundantly clear that the American people want Donald J. Trump to serve as President of the United States once again,” said McCormick, who is in his first term, in an e-mail distributed by his campaign Tuesday.
“As President, Donald Trump can reverse the failed policies of the Biden Administration that have compromised national security, undermined public safety, stifled our economy, and threatened our nation’s future.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we can spur economic growth, stop the border invasion, restore our country’s standing abroad, safeguard our rights and liberties, and protect the American Dream for generations to come.”
On Wednesday, members of Georgia’s delegation to the Republican National Committee urged Haley to end her campaign.
“We are united in our call to move to the general election phase of this campaign so that the finite time, money, and other campaign resources can be focused on firing Joe Biden,” said the statement, which was signed by state party chairman Josh McKoon and RNC members Jason Thompson and Ginger Howard.
Cody Hall, a top advisor to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, denounced the message on X (formerly Twitter), saying that “the GAGOP’s role is to support our party’s nominee, not to try to decide them. One would think they would have learned that lesson in 2022.”
That was a reference to Kemp’s easy re-election in 2022 that included a primary victory over former U.S. Sen David Perdue, whom Trump endorsed after Kemp declined demands by Trump to challenge Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results giving Biden a narrow victory for the state’s 16 electoral votes.
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