The balance of interest - among donors and the grassroots - is improving, Turner added, especially as some Republican gubernatorial nominees either openly stake out hard-line positions on issues such as abortion rights or are confronted with past positions they’ve since tried to soften. “But it’s still much harder to get a major donor to have a conversation with a gubernatorial candidate in a top-tier race than it is for them to have that conversation with a Senate candidate.” “The rising profiles of some of our governors really make a big difference in getting people to focus on those races,” said David Turner, a spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association. The added attention and, to some extent, increasing attractiveness of governors’ races to big donors and outside spenders, could benefit Democrats if only because the party has in the past tended to look past state elections and zero in on federal and presidential ones.
That, however, didn’t stop him from subduing a Trump-backed primary challenger, strengthening his brand with Peach State Republicans. Brian Kemp, because he didn’t go along with the former President’s 2020 election lies, has come under frequent criticism from his party’s ascendant right. Greg Abbott are closely aligned with Trump and his movement, while Georgia Gov. But those campaigns underscore the unique nature of these races - DeSantis in Florida and Texas Gov. Republicans have stronger grips on the governors’ mansions in the red states of Florida, Texas and Georgia. The same goes in Pennsylvania - another state President Joe Biden flipped in 2020 - where Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro would likely face a GOP-controlled legislature if he defeats Republican nominee Doug Mastriano, a Trump-allied election denier. Gretchen Whitmer and Tony Evers are likely Republicans’ only obstacle to governing trifectas. But many of the key battleground contests feature Democratic incumbents, elected during the 2018 “ blue wave,” trying to win a second term. Heading into the general election season, Republicans control 20 of the contested governor’s seats to Democrats’ 16.
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