Georgia’s newly-appointed U.S. Senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler. The basketball’s because she’s half-owner of Atlanta’s WNBA team.

Georgia’s Republican Governor Openly Defies Trump And Why That’s Important

Names his choice to fill open Senate seat, not Trump’s

Kelly Loeffler will be the new Senator from Georgia, appointed by that state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp. That’s because Senator Johnny Isakson, also a Republican, is leaving at the end of the month for health reasons.

So big question is why Kemp, whom Trump personally rallied for in Macon, right before Election Day in 2018, would choose not to return the favor? And instead appoint a businessperson who’s half owner of a WNBA team and promotes Bitcoin futures, over an attorney and Air Force chaplain Trump prefers, who’s also one of the fastest-rising starts in the “fierce Trump wing” of the Republican Party?

We almost definitely are reading too much into this, but we found it interesting nonetheless that when we looked back at video of the rally on C-SPAN, Trump and Kemp keep a lot of physical space between each other when they’re together on stage, much more than Trump typically does with people he’s supporting. Also, Kemp gobbles up almost 5 minutes of Trump’s rally with his own blathering, apparently not hearing about or disregarding the guidance that the shorter you cut in to the President’s time, the more he likes you, because it takes less of the spotlight away from…