Former Senator David Perdue Announces Primary Challenge To Georgia Governor Brian Kemp – Opinion

David Perdue (former Senator) is now ready to run for Republican nomination for the position of Republican Primary Race Representative in the November 2022 Elections. The official announcement will come tomorrow, but today, his campaign has given a head’s up to the media. The winner of the GOP primary will face the incumbent Democrat governor Stacey “Tank” Abrams.

From my point of view, this can best be characterized as “The Revenge of Trump Continues.” Perdue lost his 2020 reelection bid to Democrat Jon Ossoff. Raphael Warnock, who was running in the first round for Johnny Isakson’s seat, was ahead of SoftServe Joe, which was astonishingly narrowly defeating President Trump. There were lots of shenanigans and bizarre shifts that occurred in the votes, which we were all assured were perfectly normal. The bizarre events that took place in Democrat machine-run counties was also completely normal. This is not to say the results of the Georgia election were fraudulent, but if you’d wanted to conduct an openly fraudulent election to destroy public confidence in the electoral process and encourage citizens to stay home rather than vote, what you’d have come up with would have looked a lot like what happened in Georgia in 2020.

The fact that both Brian Kemp (the governor), Brad Raffensperger (the secretary of state), and Chris Carr (the attorney general) are Republicans only makes matters worse. The Democrats did all the dirty work right in front the voters who governed the election. Nothing was done after or during the election.

Trump has already hired Representative Jody Haice as primary Raffensperger. Hice’s district is R+31 under the most likely map and safe. Hice has to be the favorite to boat-race Raffensperger, given Raffensperger’s radioactivity with the GOP base. President Trump’s feud with Raffensperger is personal on a couple of levels. First, he blames Raffensperger, and rightly so, for the bullsh** that happened during the 2020 election. Raffensperger and President Trump had an ugly argument over a telephone call during which Trump attempted to have allegations of malfeasance investigated. Raffensperger dismissed any such attempt. Raffensperger eventually released the transcript, which was used in President Trump’s last impeachment trial.

Perdue’s entry into the GOP gubernatorial primary is a death blow to Kemp. Perdue has a higher popularity among Republicans than Kemp. And voters learn that Perdue was Trump-endorsed.

The survey, conducted for Republican operatives interested in figuring out the lay of the land in Georgia, showed Kemp leading Perdue 38% to 32%, with Democrat-turned-Republican Vernon Jones picking up 16%. The pollster presented Perdue to the voters as being endorsed by Donald Trump. He jumped ahead and won 41% to 34%. Jones took 11%. In a head-to-head with Kemp with Trump’s backing, Perdue led 50% to 41%.

The latest polls show that Tank is trailing Kemp by approximately 4 points. Given that this will be an off-year election with a motivated GOP (unless they do something profoundly stupid), the chances that Trump’s endorsement will have any more luck rallying Democrats in Georgia than it did in Virginia.

On the whole, President Trump’s vendetta against the weak-kneed Republicans in Georgia looks like it will result in stronger candidates, electorally and personally, than those who are about to be replaced.