Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday expressed his concerns with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) decision to begin reopening businesses in the Peach State at the end of the month.
After tweeting that he backs South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s (R) announcement on Monday to begin reopening the state’s economy with “a focus on social distancing,” Graham then said he worries that Georgia is “going too fast too soon” and that what happens there will also affect his own state.
We respect Georgia's right to determine its own fate, but we are all in this together.
What happens in Georgia will impact us in South Carolina.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 21, 2020
Kemp has received backlash from fellow Georgia politicians following his announcement on Monday to begin rolling back the state’s stay-at-home orders at the end of the month.
On Tuesday morning, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms said that Kemp (R) had not given her or other state leaders a heads-up prior to his announcement the day before.
Georgia Democrat and former Kemp gubernatorial rival Stacey Abrams said that the governor’s move to reopen the state is “trying to push a false opening of the economy” and will risk putting more lives in danger.
Miss Lindsey has no credibility. No one listens to him. He’s just pretending to care because it will go badly and many will die.
It’s tough choosing which side of history to be on. That’s why God created fences to sit on…
Clutch those pearls, LIndsey. What are you actually DOING about any of this?
Lindsey lives in pain because of his support for the orange one.
It must be a horrorshow inside his head.
Yet again, it takes an actual dangerous situation for a conservative to understand what liberals and progressives have known for decades (centuries?).