New Republican Governors chair, pointing to campaign battles ahead, touts 'our policies are better'

FIRST ON FOX— Gov. Brian Kemp, the brand-new chair of the Republican Governors Association, is intending to construct on the GOP momentum coming out of the 2024 elections as he expects the next gubernatorial face-offs.

” We have actually had excellent successes,” the popular GOP guv of Georgia informed Fox News Digital as he indicated President-elect Trump’s 2024 triumph along with Republican gubernatorial, congressional and down-ballot victories this month.

Republicans kept their 27-23 gubernatorial benefit in the 2024 elections, thanks in part to the efforts of the RGA.

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Looking ahead, New Jersey and Virginia are the only 2 states to hold gubernatorial elections next year, providing outsized nationwide attention and making them essential barometers for the state of mind of Americans throughout the start of a brand-new governmental term.

A competitive GOP primary is underway in blue-state New Jersey, where Republicans intend to win a gubernatorial election for the very first time in a lots years.

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And in Virginia, the GOP is rallying around Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears as she intends to be successful term-limited Republican politician Gov. Glenn Youngkin [Virginia governors can only serve one consecutive four-year term] and make history as the state’s very first lady guv and the country’s very first Black female guv.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears ( Kristen Zeis/For Washington Post by means of Getty Images)

” We’re prepared to keep working as we move into what will be a difficult cycle for us in Virginia, in New Jersey, and after that having 36 races in 2026,” Kemp stated recently in his very first interview after being chosen RGA chair at the group’s yearly winter season conference, which was held this year at a waterside resort in Marco Island, Florida.

Kemp highlighted that “my objective is for us to continue to raise sufficient cash to be competitive. The Democrats are outspending us due to the fact that they have huge check authors, however we have a great deal of actually devoted donors. We’ll attempt to continue to construct the camping tent, make certain that we have excellent prospects and win due to the fact that our policies are much better.”

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Kemp stated his own comfy re-election in 2022 and Trump’s triumph in battlefield Georgia this month in the governmental election “offers us a great deal of self-confidence, a great deal of hope, however we likewise understand that the ’26 midterm is going to be difficult.”

Kemp is term-limited and can’t look for another term in workplace in 2026. The contest to prosper him will be a leading gubernatorial election in 2 years.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ( Fox News)

” I’m going to be really engaged, you can feel confident, to ensuring that my [successors] are Republican. I have a beneficial interest in doing that,” Kemp stated. “We’ll be dealing with the Trump administration and a great deal of other individuals to make certain that that’s taking place not just in Georgia however in other states around the nation, in locations like Kansas, where we have a Democratic guv today, in locations like Arizona, where we have a truly excellent chance at winning the guv’s races. So we’re going to be on offense.”

Georgia will likewise have a prominent Senate face-off as Republicans goal to beat Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026.

Asked if he’ll be courted by nationwide Republican politicians to handle Ossoff, Kemp reacted, “Well, I may.”

However he rapidly rotated, worrying that “my focus today, being simply chosen the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is on raising cash for us to be competitive in 2025 and 2026. I have actually made the dedication to do that, and I’m going to meet that dedication. We’ll see what takes place down the roadway with anything else.”

Asked if he’s not eliminating a possible 2026 Senate quote or perhaps a 2028 White Home run, the guv stated, “I attempt to keep all doors open in politics.”