Peach Tree Times

Trump supporter Vernon Jones, who is challenging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, in next year’s primary, pummeled President Joe Biden over his April 29 visit to Atlanta.

Jones says that with the help of Biden’s “disinformation campaign” over Georgia’s recent election reform law, Atlanta lost the Major League All-Star game.

“Biden recently encouraged the relocation of the 2021 MLB All-Star Game away from Georgia – a move that is projected to cost the Atlanta region over $100 million in potential business,” Jones said in a statement. “Now, he wants to come to that very same city, and tout his new infrastructure and 'jobs' plan? Self-awareness is clearly not one of Joe Biden’s strongest attributes.”

A former Democratic Georgia state House member, Jones became a Republican in January 2021 after speaking at the Republican National Convention in support of former President Donald Trump. Kemp incurred Trump’s wrath over the Georgia election results that gave Biden the state by just 12,000 votes. Jones has called the presidential results “fixed” and “tainted.”

The Georgia Election Integrity law signed by Kemp in March, which tightened rules for voting in the wake of hurry-up procedures implemented during the pandemic, prompted Biden and other progressives to claim the new law was a return to Jim Crow laws in the South, laws that enforced segregation and restricted Blacks from voting. Biden called the new Integrity Law “Jim Crow on steroids.” The election laws in Biden’s home state of Delaware are more restrictive than the voter reforms enacted in Georgia.

“The truth is that this law takes common-sense steps to protect the sanctity of every legal vote while expanding access to the ballot box, making it easy to vote, and hard to cheat,” Jones said of the new Georgia law. “The dishonest rhetoric by the left has pressured the MLB to relocate its game, and its money, a decision that will ultimately hurt the black and brown people they claim to care about. The game is moving from Atlanta, which is 51% black and moving it to Denver, which is only 9% black. Not only will black-owned and small businesses take a hit, but hard-working restaurant workers, hotel staff, janitors and stadium vendors will too.”