Republican governor believes Trump has ‘no path’ back to the White House without his state
EXCLUSIVE — Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp insists “the road to the White House is going to run through Georgia.”
And Kemp, the popular two-term conservative governor of the crucial southeastern battleground state, emphasized in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital that “there’s no path for former President Trump to win or any Republican … to get to 270 [electoral votes] without Georgia.”
Kemp, interviewed Tuesday on the eve of Vice President Harris’ two-day bus swing through Georgia, said his state “should be one that we win if we have all the mechanics that we need. And I’m working hard to help provide those in a lot of ways and turn the Republican vote out.”
“It’s my belief that we cannot afford four more years of [President] Joe Biden and Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz, which I think would probably be worse than even Biden and Harris were,” Kemp said.
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The governor was interviewed a couple of days after Trump praised Kemp in a social media post “for all of your help and support in Georgia, where a win is so important to the success of our Party and, most importantly, our Country.”
“I look forward to working with you, your team, and all of my friends in Georgia to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the Republican presidential nominee added.
The comments from Trump were a major change of tune when it comes to Georgia’s governor.
For two years after his 2020 election defeat to President Biden, which included a razor-thin loss in Georgia, Trump attacked Kemp for failing to overturn the election results in his state.
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Trump toned down the criticism in 2022 after Kemp crushed Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue in the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary.
Earlier this month, Trump went on a 10-minute tirade against Kemp at a rally in Atlanta just blocks from the Georgia State Capitol. Trump blamed the governor not only for failing to overturn the 2020 vote count but also for not stopping a county prosecutor from indicting the former president for his attempts to reverse the results.
“He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said. “Little Brian. Little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”
Kemp told Fox News, “I’m not sure exactly what happened going into the rally. I’ve seen a lot of different stories and people’s explanations of what happened.”
“To me, that was a small distraction that’s in the past,” Kemp added.
And Kemp said Republicans “need to stay focused on the future. … We need to be telling people why they should vote for us, what we’re going to do to make things better than they are right now. And there’s a host of issues that I think you could contrast Kamala Harris and her record.
“To me, that’s what we need to stay focused on, not some dustup from two or three weeks ago.”
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Asked about Trump’s reversal last Thursday, Kemp said, “You have to ask him those questions. I’ve been consistent for really the last couple of years that I was going to support the ticket, whoever our nominee was, in Georgia. That’s exactly what I’m doing, what I have been doing.”
But Trump’s statement came moments after Kemp appeared on Fox News Channel and reiterated to host Sean Hannity that “we need to send Donald Trump back to the White House.”
Asked Tuesday if he and Trump had connected since last week, Kemp said, “I haven’t talked to him.”
“I’ve talked to a lot of other folks, and I think everybody has a good understanding of where everybody is and understands my position has not changed,” Kemp said. “I have been supporting him and the whole ticket in Georgia, and I’m still doing that and will continue to do that through November.”
Republican strategists agree that to recapture Georgia, Trump will need assistance from Kemp’s well-oiled and funded political machine to turn out GOP voters.
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Kemp said he’s “working hard” to “turn the Republican vote out and make sure that we win this state in November.”
“How that looks and how that goes will really be up to kind of how things play out and what states are in play and who’s going where and when,” Kemp added.
“I’ve got other responsibilities in my duties with the Republican Governors Association, traveling around the country helping to raise money to win North Carolina and hold New Hampshire in our column and also helping our legislative races here.”
Kemp also acknowledged that he’s asked for legal advice from the state attorney general on whether he can remove from the state election board three conservative members on the five-person panel who championed and passed a controversial set of new rules that mandate extra requirements for county election boards to certify their results.
“We’ve asked the attorney general for an opinion on that on whether this would be an official complaint, if you will, and I’m waiting to hear back. So, I really wouldn’t be able to comment too much on that since we’re asking for legal advice,” Kemp told Fox News.
Trump, who has been charged in Fulton County, Georgia, with election interference, praised the three members for pushing for the new rules and called them “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”
Georgia Democrats call the new rules a “concerted effort to subvert democracy” and have challenged them, arguing they could delay election certification and spark major disputes.
Man in dire state rescued from mountain after co-workers ditch him during office retreat
An injured Colorado man weathered a storm and survived a night alone on a mountain after his co-workers left him behind during an office retreat, rescue officials said Sunday.
The man was part of a group of 15 co-workers who had set off to summit Mount Shavano on Friday, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue South said.
“In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their party was left to complete his final summit push alone,” the agency said.
The male hiker, who was wearing all black, reached the summit at 11:30 a.m. and became disoriented as he began his descent. He found that belongings left in the boulder field to mark the path for the descent had been picked up by the previous group as they hiked down.
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As he tried to descend on his own, the hiker found himself in the steep boulder and scree field on the northeast slope toward Shavano Lake.
“Concerned for himself, he sent a pin drop (specific location mark on a map) to co-workers already descending,” the Chaffee County SAR South said. “These co-workers informed him his route was wrong and to climb back up the slope to regain the trail.”
As the man neared the trail at around 3:50 p.m., he sent another pin drop and text to his group. Shortly after sending the message, however, a strong storm pummeled the area with freezing rain and high winds, officials said.
The storm disoriented the man further and cut off his cell service.
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Search and rescuers received the call about the overdue hiker at 9 p.m., responding with two hasty teams and a drone pilot. Crews worked throughout the night, but high winds and freezing rain prevented them from reaching the summit.
The following morning, the man regained enough cell service to call 911 for help. He was found above the North Fork drainage in a gully below Esprit Point.
The man told rescuers that he had become disoriented and fell at least 20 times during his attempt to descend alone. He said that after his last fall, he was unable to get up.
“This hiker was phenomenally lucky to have regained cell service when he did, and to still have enough consciousness and wherewithal to call 911,” rescuers said. “Though he was located in a tertiary search area, it would have been some time before teams made it to that location on their own.”
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Search and rescue officials urged hikers to stay with a partner and pack bright clothing along with other essentials when setting off in the backcountry.
School board meeting gets heated as parents challenge Title IX changes
A school district meeting in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, unleashed fierce debate among parents and community members while deliberating the local implementation of new Title IX rules.
“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that you guys are even considering letting bathrooms and locker rooms [be] coed. I don’t care how they identify or whatever kind of delusion people live in, whatever kind of mental disease that they have, boys are boys and girls are girls. It’s simple and basic. It’s always been that way, and that’s why we have separate bathrooms,” Josh Vienola, a member of the local Moms for Liberty Facebook group, said during the Aug. 14 meeting.
“I don’t understand what’s going on with you guys that we’re even considering this. You guys need to [say], ‘No, absolutely not,’ and come back to reality,” Vienola continued.
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His response to the school board members came after the input of Kora Novy, self-proclaimed director of Oshkosh Pride, who fanned the preliminary flames of the debate by labeling the discussion as a “roadblock.”
“What is this fight really about” Novy questioned. “You don’t get to impose [your] beliefs on anybody else, and that’s actually what religious liberty is, it’s that you’re right to believe that is protected but the other person that identifies as something also has a right to be protected.”
The LGBT activist said they are “paying attention” and will “be involved in this conversation if it keeps on going,” echoing the sentiment of another local, TJ Hobbs, and their concern over local Title IX compliance.
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Laura Ackermann, chapter chair of Winnebago County’s Moms for Liberty, an organization that one of the school board members labeled “extremist” during the heated exchange, also chimed into the debate, focusing her concerns on potential discomfort female pupils might have over the changes that Title IX would incite.
“The old Title IX was two paragraphs, and it was meant to protect girls and women in sports and education. The new policy, the new regulations are 1,500 pages,” Ackermann said. “Moms for Liberty want all children protected. … What the risk is with the new policy is it does potentially, in some instances, put the transgender student above the girls. That’s what the argument is around changing Title IX from being protecting girls to now including the transgender population. Not that they shouldn’t be, but there are other policies to protect them.”
“If a transgender person wants to go into the opposite bathroom, under this law, you must let them. If a girl complains because they’re not comfortable with a male naked in their locker room, she has no recourse under this new policy,” Ackermann continued.
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Referencing a lawsuit she sent to the board, Ackermann said that if a girl is “offended” by a transgender student using the girls’ bathroom, they are asked to use a separate restroom, but the same question “cannot” be asked of the transgender student.
Ackermann went on to say that the Oshkosh area schools are currently in compliance with Wisconsin state law 118.13 and said that she found current policies were “both state and federally compliant.
The Oshkosh area school district has yet to respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Details emerge about student gunned down on first day of classes at elite university
New details have emerged about the Rice University student who was gunned down in an apparent murder-suicide that rocked the elite Houston school on the first day of classes.
Andrea Rodriguez Avila, 21, was a junior political science and pre-law major from Nottingham, Maryland. She had just transferred to Rice in spring 2024 from the Community College of Baltimore County, Fox News Digital learned.
An accomplished student, Avila was deputy parliamentarian of the Rice Student Association, a peer academic advisor at her residential hall – Jones College – and a member of the university’s Honor Council.
A spokesperson for the university confirmed that Avila’s family arrived in Houston on Tuesday morning, a day after the tragedy.
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“[Avila’s family] is receiving support from the university’s leadership team during this profoundly challenging time. They have requested privacy as they mourn their loss but are deeply appreciative of the outpouring of thoughts and prayers from the community,” a university spokesperson said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
Avila was found dead in her dorm room Monday when university police conducted a welfare check. Family had expressed concern that they were unable to get in touch with her.
A man, who was not a student at the university, was also found dead in the room with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Houston police have not yet released the identity of the suspected shooter but say he is a 22-year-old believed to be from Florida. The release of his identity is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
Rice University Police Chief Clemente Rodriguez confirmed Avila and the man were in a “dating relationship.”
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A note left at the scene indicated that the pair were involved in a “troubled relationship,” police said.
The incident has rocked the Rice community amid what should have been an exciting start to the fall semester.
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches said the campus has been “shaken to its core” on a day that should have been filled with “promise and new beginnings.”
“The pain we feel on campus tonight is immeasurable, and I know that words cannot fully capture the sorrow and grief that many of you may be experiencing. I urge you to lean on each other, to offer support and compassion, and to remember that we are all joined in our grief and care,” DesRoches wrote in a message on the school’s website.
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Classes were canceled at the school on Tuesday.
Rice is a small school of about 8,500 students. Tuition is about $60,000 a year.
RFK Jr’s ex–running mate hits back at critics after he endorsed Trump
California entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan hit back at criticism after her former running mate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorsed former President Trump on Friday at a rally in Arizona.
Shanahan responded to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, who suggested RFK, Jr. “fully disgraced” his father’s name, and Democratic strategist James Carville, who suggested the former independent presidential candidate was “at the top of” America’s “mental health crisis” and should be institutionalized.
“This is wild. I’m asking myself what happened to the party of ‘when they go low, we go high,’ because right now, they’re just going lower and lower and lower. And I’m shocked, I’m saddened, I’m worried for them, honestly,” she said Tuesday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “They’ve lost their soul. They’ve lost their direction.”
Five of RFK, Jr.’s siblings released a statement denouncing his decision to endorse Trump, calling it a “betrayal” of their family’s values and a “sad ending to a sad story.” They said they believe in the Harris-Walz ticket and want an America “filled with hope.”
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Shanahan told Fox News host Jesse Watters her ex-running mate is “one of the kindest” people she’s known, and that he said he doesn’t have a “bone of revenge” in his body.
RFK, Jr. suspended his 2024 campaign and endorsed Trump, acknowledging that he and the former president would continue to criticize each other on issues they hold different stances on, but ultimately, they would seek to form a “unity government.”
The 70-year-old nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy said he wants to focus on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, preventing censorship and promoting children’s health.
He told the crowd in Glendale, Ariz., that Trump will “make America healthy again.”
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“Making America healthy again is admitting the fact that we have the highest chronic health disease rate of any modern nation,” Shanahan said. “We spend $4.6 trillion on health care. It doesn’t seem to be getting us anywhere, so it’s really asking the hard questions of why is our health care system not delivering healthy people?”
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RFK, Jr. was officially added to the Trump-Vance transition team Tuesday.
Republicans in blue state demand answers on $1 billion in ‘secret’ migrant spending
Massachusetts Republicans have submitted a formal request with the state’s government for information on the alleged “$1 billion in secret migrant crisis spending” as the Bay State grapples with the migrant crisis.
In a release from the state’s Republican Party, MassGOP, the group demanded that Gov. Maura Healey’s administration provides a detailed cost breakdown of the toll that the migrant crisis has caused for the state’s residents.
“The Healey-Driscoll Administration has shrouded nearly $1 billion spent in secrecy, leaving Massachusetts residents in the dark,” MassGOP chair Amy Carnevale said in a statement. “They have withheld critical information on 600 incidents involving police, fire and EMT. Blocking journalists at every turn, the administration has obstructed the flow of information to the public.”
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In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Carnevale demanded the specifics of the state’s funding to provide housing for migrants.
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In the FOIA request, Carnevale called for the Healey administration to provide the names of government and private entities that are providing emergency housing for migrants, where the emergency housing is located, any correspondents relating to public safety concerns, and any incident reports or police reports.
Carnevale argued that the Democrats’ supermajority has created a “veil of secrecy” surrounding the migrant crisis.
“Today, the Massachusetts Republican Party is standing against the veil of secrecy and the obstructionist efforts of the Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Democratic supermajority,” she said. “We stand with the Massachusetts press corps in declaring: enough is enough. The public deserves transparency. Release the details on the vendors profiting from this crisis and the public safety issues affecting our communities.”
“On behalf of Massachusetts residents, we are demanding accountability,” Carnevale added.
The MassGOP’s request comes after the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a report on July 24, which predicted Massachusetts will struggle to manage the growing number of migrants coming to the state.
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The report noted that the state has already spent more than $1 billion on the Emergency Assistance sheltering program that houses migrants.
“The cost to Massachusetts taxpayers of temporary housing and shelters is enormous, but it pales in comparison to the costs that will accumulate in the future if those in the temporary shelters today remain in the Commonwealth for the long term,” wrote Jessica Vaughan, CIS director of policy studies.
In addition to housing, some other costs taxpayers will have to cover include schooling, social services, medical care and public safety.
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The report estimated that the number of “illegal and inadmissible” migrants living in Massachusetts is about 355,000 with 50,000 new arrivals since 2021. It also reported that 10,000 migrants were minors with 8,500 being unaccompanied.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the MassGOP and Healey’s office for comment.
’90s TV star shares the ‘hardest’ part of cancer diagnosis and treatment
Nicole Eggert revealed she’s in a “gray area” regarding her 2023 breast cancer diagnosis.
“I am good,” Eggert told People magazine. “I am in sort of a gray area and I finished my treatment, waiting for more imaging and hopefully maybe surgery.
“And there’s a lot of waiting in this and it’s sort of something I didn’t really realize and nobody really talks about,” she explained. “But the gray area is the hardest because you don’t know what’s happening, and you’re just, when I’m doing treatment, I felt like I was doing something productive.”
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Eggert added she’s on a “wild ride” that she never wanted to be on.
“There’s good days. There’s bad days. It’s a roller coaster,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “It’s this wild ride I never wanted to be on. So, sometimes I’m good… It is what it is. But I just live. I just try to stay positive every day and try to keep going.”
The 52-year-old actress joined the cast of “Baywatch” for the premiere of the new documentary, “After Baywatch: Moment in The Sun.” Douglas Schwartz, Michael Berk, Ingrid Walter, and Carmen Electra attended the premiere among other stars. Missing from the evening was Pamela Anderson, who did not participate in the project.
“It is a little surreal, but it’s great to see everybody and everybody came out and how well received it’s been,” Eggert told ET on the red carpet.
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The “Baywatch” star revealed her cancer diagnosis in January.
“I have a 12-year-old at home where I’m the only caregiver. I have no family. I have nothing,” she told People magazine at the time. “It immediately made me realize, there’s just no succumbing to this. This is something I have to get through. This is something that I have to beat. She needs me more than anything and anybody,” she said of her daughter Keegan. Eggert’s other daughter, Dilyn, is 25.
“My fear is that my everyday hustle, everything that I do to keep everything going is going to come to a screeching halt when I’m not feeling well or I’m sick or I’m in the hospital or whatever is going on,” she added. “It’s just so overwhelming, and I’m just doing everything I can not to spiral. At night when I lay down, I panic because I’m like, well, who’s going to cover all the bills? Who’s going to do all of this?”
Eggert debuted her shaved head in March after cutting her hair short. The TV actress posted a video of the moment she shaved off her hair on Instagram. She was joined by her daughter for the big reveal.
The clip, which played to the song “Fight For Your Right,” featured Eggert holding a set of hair clippers and smiling before removing her already short hair.
“Maybe healing involves not so much changing ourselves but allowing ourselves to be who we are – Madeleine Eames,” the “Charles in Charge” star captioned the post.
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Eggert found a lump on her breast during a self-exam in October 2023. At the time, the actress had gained 25 pounds in three months and was experiencing pain in her breast.
“It really was throbbing and hurting,” Eggert explained to People magazine. “I immediately went to my general practitioner, and she told me I had to immediately go get it looked at. But the problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done.”
She was eventually diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer.
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Age-defying pics show ’80s actors reunited 41 years after ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’
“National Lampoon’s Vacation” stars Christie Brinkley and Chevy Chase are continuing their adventure 41 years later.
Brinkley, 70, and Chase, 80, took fans on a “Holiday Road” trip down memory lane, as the two were seen all smiles during their reunion.
“Vacation is always over too soon!” the two Hollywood actors shared on their Instagram accounts with a car emoji.
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In the series of photos, Brinkley and Chase grinned ear-to-ear in a selfie from what appeared to be in the back seat of a vehicle.
Brinkley wore a tan sweater and accessorized it with large blue rings on her fingers. Chase donned a light teal shirt with a pink buttoned-up shirt over him and red-rimmed glasses. He topped his look with a white hat.
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The duo shared a video from their car adventure. Chase is seen waving to the camera.
The blast from the past photos comes more than four decades after the release of the first film.
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The movie follows the Griswold family as they embark on a road trip across the country, starting in the suburbs of Chicago and ending at a Southern California amusement park. Along the way, the family goes through one mishap after the other, while visiting kooky family members along the way.
Chase and Beverly D’Angelo starred as Clark and Ellen Griswold in the classic family series which began with an innocent, cross-country drive to Walley World theme park.
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The 1983 film, directed by Harold Ramis and written by John Hughes, also starred Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and John Candy. Brinkley had the iconic role as “The Girl in the Ferrari.”
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit pinup made her acting debut in the comedy classic long after she made her mark as a model in the 1970s. Brinkley played a blonde bombshell driving a red Ferrari who kept running into Clark Griswold (Chase) during a family road trip.
Last year, “National Lampoon’s Vacation” celebrated its 40th anniversary.
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