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Primary 2018: GOP candidates focus on red meat issues
Guns, immigration and Trump are center of contest between 5 contenders
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Georgia gubernatorial candidates are introduced during the9th District Republican Party's governors debate at The Venue at Friendship Springs in Flowery Branch, on Saturday, March 31, 2018. - photo by David Barnes
Never mind cutting taxes, creating jobs and other pocketbook mainstays of past Republican campaigns. Amid fierce competition in the GOP primary race for Georgia governor, the five remaining candidates are battling it out over who loves guns the most, who would prove toughest on people in the country illegally and who would best support President Donald Trump. The major candidates, a cadre of statewide officeholders, former lawmakers and businessmen, have similar policy goals on those issues but are locked in an increasingly noisy battle over each other’s records as they try to win over conservative voters.