Among the many odd moves Donald Trump has made since Kamala Harris swooped into the presidential race last month, one of the strangest came at a campaign rally in Atlanta on August 3rd. That night Mr Trump devoted 11 minutes of his speech to insulting Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor. He reprimanded “little Brian” for being “disloyal” by refusing to overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020. He said that under Mr Kemp’s leadership the state had “become a laughing-stock” and Atlanta a “killing field”, suggested that the governor was behind his criminal prosecution in Fulton County and accused him of “doing everything possible” to make Republicans lose in November.