Former US Sen. David Perdue officially announced his run for Governor of Georgia. “I’m running for governor to make sure Stacey Abrams is never governor of Georgia,” Perdue said in a video posted on Twitter that mentions the “woke left” at least twice. Perdue somehow blamed Gov. Brian Kemp for his election loss to Democrat Jon Ossoff, saying, “Instead of protecting our elections, he caved to Abrams, and cost us two Senate seats, the Senate majority and gave Joe Biden free rein. … Kemp caved before the election and the country is paying the price today.” Trump has it out for Kemp because the Republican Governor wouldn’t overturn the presidential election in his state.
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, said on CNN that Perdue is the only one to blame for his loss to Ossoff.
“Brian Kemp is probably Georgia’s most conservative governor in history,” Duncan said. “He has done everything he needs to do. We’ve cut taxes, we’ve increased teacher pay, we’ve navigated through a pandemic, we’ve got $6 billion in a rainy day fund, and, quite honestly, David Perdue should know better than this. He’s the only one to blame for losing his last election to Jon Ossoff, and he ran the worst campaign ever — and that’s his fault, not Brian Kemp’s or Geoff Duncan’s or any other Republican’s fault.”
“What issue do you see him running on?” host John Berman asked. “I mean, what do you think the big issue for him is then?”
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“It appears early on he will try to carry Donald Trump’s water on the conspiracy stuff, and that seems to be the only tailwind he’s got; it’s unfortunate,” he said. “We what much this play out all across the country. But look, his is a short-term sugar high; it will wear off. The quicker we take our medicine as Republicans and move on and focus on the next election, the next opportunity to lead this country, the quicker we are going to get the White House back, the Senate back, the House back and have opportunities to put our conservative leadership on display.”
“We don’t need the traveling circus of Donald Trump to stay here in Georgia. We need it to stay down in Mar-a-Lago, working on his handicap playing golf and let us be conservatives here in Georgia and move forward,” he added.
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We hope that Trump sees that as a challenge and goes to the Peach State. After all, he did help Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeat the two Republicans.
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