Has the biggest feud in the Republican firmament finally come to an end?

If so, it comes not a moment too soon. Donald Trump desperately needs to wrest Georgia from the Democrats' grip in November in order to recapture the White House. Joe Biden's support had dropped to 40% after his disastrous debate performance, but Kamala Harris has managed to get back within a point of Trump in RCP's aggregation of post-anointment polling. (The most recent poll, from NYT/Siena, still has Trump up by four.)

Trump needs a reset of his own in Georgia, and he may have gotten it -- by putting aside his grudge against the state's popular governor, Brian Kemp. During Harris' speech last night, Trump suddenly signaled on TruthSocial that the feud had come to an end. Atlanta's NBC affiliate certainly took notice:

Thank you to #BrianKempGA for all of your help and support in Georgia, where a win is so important to the success of our Party and, most importantly, our Country. 

I look forward to working with you, your team, and all of my friends in Georgia to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Trump later went on Fox News to rebut Harris' speech, and Bret Baier asked him about the social-media signal on Kemp. Trump confirmed that he and Kemp would work together to win Georgia. But it was less than three weeks ago that he called Kemp "disloyal" in a rally at Georgia State:

"He is the most disloyal guy I think I've ever seen," Trump said of Kemp. "But think of the wife ... and now she said two weeks ago that I will not endorse him because he has not earned my endorsement ... but I don't want her endorsement, I don't want his endorsement. I just want them to do their job for Georgia and you know what, he's the governor, he oughta support his Republican party because if he's not, if he doesn't have his Republican party, I can tell you where he came from and it wasn't good."

Kemp clapped back on the comments made by Trump, saying his focus is on winning the presidential election come November and "not engaging in petty personal insults, attacking fellow Republicans, or dwelling on the past."

The Georgia governor wrapped it up simply on social media, saying in part: "You should do the same, Mr. President, and leave my family out of it."

What happened? Kemp made the first move to repair the breech, which Trump also noted with Baier in his phone interview last night. "You saw him on Hannity," Trump said, and that was indeed the fulcrum of the feud's end:

[W]hen the Georgia governor appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, Kemp seemed to have been the first to extend an olive branch to the former president. During his segment, Kemp declared that it was important for Republicans to be victorious in the upcoming election, including Trump returning to the White House. 

“We gotta win,” Kemp said to Hannity. “We gotta win from the top of the ticket on down. We need to send Donald Trump back to the White House. We need to retake the Senate. We need to hold the House.” ...

“Are you making a specific effort in Georgia to make up, if you will, with the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp?” Baier asked the former president.

“Well, I just saw Brian on…he was interviewed by Sean Hannity, and he was very nice, and he said he wants Trump to win and he’s going to work with me 100%. I think we’re going to have a very good relationship with Brian Kemp,” Trump responded.

Well, good, because this was a foolish feud from the start. And in the end, it did more damage to Trump than it did to Kemp anyway. The recent poll from NYT/Siena shows Trump up four points, but with barely favorable ratings among likely voters (50/48). Harris is just barely underwater in Georgia too (47/50). This is among a sample that oversamples Trump 2020 voters too, 49/47 over Biden, when Trump lost Georgia 49.5/49.2. (Trump has more likely voters in this cycle in all probability, of course.)

In contrast, though, Kemp is far more popular than either of them. His favorability stands at 62/33 in this same poll, and with far better demographic reach. Kemp gets a 60/36 among women, for instance, while Trump gets 43/55. Kemp's even at 50/48 in the DeKalb/Fulton urban area, and 51/42 in urban areas generally throughout the state. 

In other words, Trump needs Kemp a lot more than Kemp needs Trump. And Trump knows it, even if he didn't make the first move to heal the breach. 

Republicans have to win Georgia to win back the White House. And maybe we can breathe a sigh of relief that the focus in that state will be on winning the election rather than scoring points in an internecine feud.