Resounding setback for Trump as Kemp wins Republican primary in Georgia

Former president had sought to oust current governor as part of his crusade to punish those involved in his 2020 defeat

Georgia governor Brian Kemp won the state's Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, easily overcoming a challenge from former senator David Perdue in a resounding setback for Donald Trump.

The Associated Press projected Kemp the winner over Perdue, one of a trio of Georgia races on Tuesday night that revealed limits to Trump's power over the party he has remade in his image. As part of a post-presidential crusade to punish the Republicans he blames for his 2020 defeat, Trump had sought to oust Kemp along with the state's Republican attorney general and Republican secretary of state.