Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp admitted that when the Peach State was holding its GOP primary in March — when it came to voting for former President Donald Trump, he abstained.
“I didn’t vote for anybody. I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody,” Kemp told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source”.
The revelation came one day before the 45th and 46th presidents will debate in Atlanta on Thursday in a heated contest to determine who will be the leader of the free world come 2025.
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”I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here,” Kemp added.
He conceded that by the time the decision for the GOP candidate to choose, Trump had clinched it.
Notably, Trump's staunchest rival, former UN Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had bowed out days before the state would head to the polls to pick the next Republican presidential candidate.
“I always try to go vote and, you know, play a part in it, but look at that point, it didn’t really matter,” he said.
While he may have dodged backing Trump in the GOP contest, when it comes to the general election on November 5, Kemp is pledging to "support the ticket".
Collins pressed Kemp about how he can be so dedicated despite the fact that Trump and his camp blamed the governor for losing the overwhelmingly Republican state by approximately 12,000 votes in 2020.
"I think it would be pretty interesting for [Georgians] to hear why you didn't feel the need to vote for him or didn't want to," she said to Kemp.
"It would be for me, personally politically, if I had voted for him or interested if I didn't vote at all. But the bottom line it doesn't really matter.
"I mean, he was the presumptive nominee before the primary ever got here."
