Donald Trump’s vow to exact revenge on Brian Kemp has morphed into an all-out effort to also punish the governor’s closest allies.

For the second time in as many weeks, the former president endorsed a little-known Republican challenger to one of Kemp’s closest political loyalists. In both cases, the Trump-backed candidates launched last-minute campaigns against the pro-Kemp incumbents just ahead of a March deadline.

The latest beneficiary of Trump’s blessing is John Gordon, a conservative lawyer who announced his challenge to Attorney General Chris Carr with effusive praise for Trump. Gordon renewed his expired law license last year to help Trump’s failed legal challenge of the Georgia election results and recently told WDUN that ”there is no question in my mind that Donald Trump won Georgia.”

Trump indicated Tuesday his support had more to do with Carr than Gordon, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Senate in 2018. In a statement, Trump claimed Carr did “absolutely nothing” to support his false claims of rampant election fraud in Georgia.