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Originally Posted by VitaMan
This could finally be the beginning of loosening the icy grip Trump has on the Republican party. If Kemp gets the Republican nomination for governor, perhaps others will start to fall away from Trump, and finally say the emperor has no clothes.
53 percent of voters support Kemp in the race, while 26 percent support Perdue, the Trump backed candidate.
Similar results occur when asked whether respondents approve of the men, with Kemp’s favorable rating at 71 percent and Perdue’s at 57 percent.
During their debate, Perdue continued to peddle the false claim made by former President Trump that the 2020 election was stolen and blamed Kemp for Democrats having control of the White House and Senate.
“The only reason I’m not in the United States Senate is because you caved in and gave the election to … liberal Democrats,” Perdue, who lost his Senate seat to now-Sen. Jon Ossoff (D), said to Kemp during the debate.
“Weak leaders blame everybody else for their own loss instead of themselves,” Kemp fired back.
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Perdue is wrong. The only reason he's not in the United States Senate is because of Trump and his supporters like Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. They tried to steal an election, and in the process fired up Democratic voters to go to the polls in large numbers. And Wood even encouraged Georgia Republicans to stay home and not vote in the runoff because "your vote doesn't make any difference."
I strongly regret having contributed to Perdue's campaign in the senatorial runoff. The man is only interested in his own political future, nothing else. If Perdue wins the nomination, Stacey Abrams has an excellent shot at being elected governor.
Georgia GOP primary for governor
