Georgia Governor Brian Kemp again played coy during an interview Monday night on whether he will enter the GOP presidential primary.

The second-term Republican told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he’s “certainly not running for president” but then immediately added: “But there’s always doors open in politics, depending on how things play out. And we’ll see what happens.”

When asked if he thought anyone could beat former President Donald Trump, Kemp said that the race is stagnant at this point, but that he takes current national primary polls with “a grain of salt.”

“You’re fixing to be in the dog days of August,” Kemp said, adding that there was “still a long way to go in the race.”

When asked what he thought about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Kemp said that he has talked to his campaign and they are “doing a lot of really good things, a lot of good things on the ground. And they’re in it for the long haul.”

“His numbers were so high, before he got in, in some ways he didn’t have anywhere to go,” he said. “And now he’s gotten in a stagnant place, but they’re making a lot of changes.”

Kemp, who said he will support whomever wins the GOP nomination, said that Republicans must win in 2024 and that in order to that the candidates must be focused on future, not the past. Trump could win Georgia in a general election, because Biden is deeply unpopular and has been “such a bad president,” Kemp said. But he warned that if Trump keeps focusing on what he considers the stolen 2020 election, he could easily lose the 2024 presidential election.

“I mean, for goodness sakes, it was two and a half, three years ago now,” he said. “The American people want to know, what are you going to do for me to help me offset the bad policies of Joe Biden?”

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Trump pressured him to overturn the election, call a special session (even though he couldn't), said he was ashamed he'd ever endorsed him and blasted him as "hapless." But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he'll still work to get the GOP nominee elected, even if it's Trump. pic.twitter.com/A1LYYMbM9n

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 18, 2023

A group of Tennessee Republican lawmakers pushed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday to explain how an illegal immigrant accused of raping multiple children was allowed to stay in the U.S. for two decades.

The Republicans, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accusing his agency of failing to enforce American immigration laws and contributing to the alleged crimes.

“We write to express our disgust with this administration’s complete failure to secure our border and enforce the rule of law, the effects of which are impacting communities and families across the country,” the letter says.

Blackburn was joined by Reps. Diana Harshbarger, Tim Burchett, Chuck Fleischmann, Scott DesJarlais, Andy Ogles, Mark Green, and John Rose.

The letter referred to the case of Camilo Hurtado Campos, a youth soccer coach and illegal immigrant living in Franklin, Tennessee. Police say they found “disturbing videos and pictures” on documenting the “rapes of at least 10 children” ages 9 to 17 on Campos phone, which he accidentally left at a restaurant, according to The Tennessean.

“We fear that, in addition to very recent victims, there could be a decade or more of victims out there,” Franklin Police Department Lt. Charles Warner said last week. More people have since stepped forward and said they were victimized by Campos, who is being held in custody on charges of child rape and sexual exploitation of a minor.

“Perhaps most devastating of all, this horrific abuse was entirely preventable — police confirmed on July 12 that Campos is an illegal immigrant who should not have been in our country in the first place,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter on Monday. “Indeed, if this administration had any interest in enforcing our nation’s laws, he wouldn’t have been.”

Campos had been in trouble with the police before, according to the letter. He had been cited for public intoxication and three instances of driving without a license. Despite his run-ins with law enforcement, police said Campos has lived in the Franklin area for about two decades through multiple administrations.

The lawmakers requested more information from the DHS on Campos’s case, including whether the department was aware of Campos and his immigration status as well as whether the department ever initiated any enforcement actions against him. The GOP letter asks for a response from the secretary by July 24.

“Violence against children is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and Tennesseans deserve to know why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permitted this criminal to live in their community and abuse their children after entering the country illegally,” the letter says.

Mayorkas has received an intense criticism from Republicans for his handling of the U.S. southern border crisis, punctuated by a peak of roughly 10,000 apprehensions a day for a period of time in May. Some members have even pushed for Mayorkas to be impeached.