President Trump on Wednesday endorsed Brian Kemp in the Republican primary in Georgia’s race for governor.

Kemp is facing off against Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

In his tweet, Trump called Kemp “tough on crime, strong on the border and illegal immigration.” Kemp has his “full and total endorsement,” the tweet said.

[Trump: Democrats want illegal immigrants 'to pour into and infest' the US]



Brian Kemp is running for Governor of the great state of Georgia. The Primary is on Tuesday. Brian is tough on crime, strong on the border and illegal immigration. He loves our Military and our Vets and protects our Second Amendment. I give him my full and total endorsement. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018

Kemp promised in a campaign video in May he would “round up criminal illegals” in his truck and deport them himself if he was elected governor in November.

“I own guns that no one’s taking away,” Kemp says in the ad.

Neither Kemp nor Cagle supported Trump in the Republican primaries in the 2016 presidential election, and polls show a close race between the two Republicans.