Overview
- Matt Towery told Sean Hannity on Monday that he is “concerned” about Republican turnout in Georgia after Republicans lagged Democrats by about 150,000 early votes in the state’s primaries.
- The warning marks a shift from Towery’s comments a month earlier when he downplayed President Trump’s weak poll numbers and said pollsters were wrong.
- Towery urged immediate GOP steps to boost engagement, including running ads and amplifying President Trump’s accomplishments to counter what he described as a dominant negative media focus.
- Georgia is a central battleground this year with Sen. Jon Ossoff defending his seat, a June 19 Republican runoff for governor, and all 14 House districts competitive, so early-vote gaps can change resource priorities and campaign plans.
- News outlets framed Towery’s change in tone as a bleaker prognosis for the Republican midterm outlook, and his call for rapid spending and messaging shifts could prompt campaigns to reallocate money and ground operations ahead of November.