On battling crime, Georgia’s Kemp vows ‘we’re going to stay in the fight’

ALPHARETTA, Georgia – Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has a message for Georgians when it comes to battling crime.

“We’re in the fight and we’re going to stay in the fight,” the governor told a crowd of supporters at a rally at this fast-growing city in the suburbs north of Atlanta.

With just under six weeks to go until Election Day, Republican candidates, committees and allied groups have been increasingly spotlighting crime on the campaign trail as they target Democrats. It’s an issue that national polls indicate voters trust Republicans more than Democrats. According to national ad tracking firm AdImpact, Republican campaigns and allied groups aired 53,000 commercials on crime during the first three weeks of this month.

In Georgia, where polls suggest the conservative governor has a slight edge over Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their 2018 showdown, Kemp says he’s been emphasizing the issue of crime for years.

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“I was talking about that issue four years ago. If you look back, what I ran on – I ran on going after street gangs and drug cartels when I was running for governor in 2018,” he said in an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, just ahead of his rally in Alpharetta.

And the incumbent touted his record on crime in office.

“I fulfilled a lot of promises over the last three and a half years. We created the gang task force at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. We’ve given our attorney general, Chris Carr, more resources to prosecute gangs,” Kemp showcased.  “We’ve been making sure our capital city’s safe.”

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And pointing to the multi-agency crime suppression unit, Georgia’s governor noted that “we’ve arrested over 600…