Former U.S. Senator David Perdue officially entered Georgia governor’s race on Sunday. Perdue lost is Senate re-election bid in a runoff to Jon Ossoff in January. But with the urging of former President Donald Trump, Perdue is now challenging incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
Kemp angered Trump when he wouldn’t overturn Georgia’s election results in the General Election last year. President Joe Biden won the state’s 16 Electoral College votes, which had not been done by a Democrat since 1992. Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the state were found to be baseless multiple times, and he regularly attacked Kemp and other state Republican leaders as a result.
Perdue took aim at Kemp saying the current governor cannot beat Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, who announced last week that she was running again for governor. Abrams lost out on the open governor’s seat in 2018 to Kemp by some 55,000 votes. And she has been credited with helping turn Georgia into a swing state that voted for Biden and elected two Democratic U.S. Senators in the 2020 elections.
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