Kemp won by 300,000 votes over Abrams in the general. He did that in spite of the democrats throwing buckets of money at Abrams and Trump trying to undermine him on the right. Every other statewide candidate rode Kemp's coattails to victory except Walker - Trump's choice. Kemp campaigned very hard for Walker, but he still lost. I would behoove my party to take a hard honest look at why he Walker failed.
Agreed, it appears that Trump’s support was not beneficial to his campaign. My observations:
1) prepare a ground game to take advantage of early voting laws. Just because we are trying to overturn them, does not mean that we should ignore them while they are in effect,
2) Scour candidates pasts and prepare counters for any blemishes. Where no blemishes exist, prepare counters for false claims. It does no good to leave a candidate to call an accuser a liar. We have to be better than that. Consider the Corona ad campaign to counter rumors that workers were pissing in their beer (started by an American beer co!). They didn’t launch an ad campaign saying that their workers don’t piss in their beer. They launched a campaign with no words at all, and they won resoundingly!
3) determine who can most effectively stump for a candidate with a given electorate. This should be done at a national level. Assuming Trump is the right choice in every instance is foolishness. Look at Georgia for Pete’s sake. I’m no expert, but I am certain that I could come up with half a dozen individuals who would have been more effective. Anyone who thinks Trump is the answer for Atlanta demographics is not looking at things very closely.
Two cents from the cheap seats.