The top two Republicans running for governor in Georgia launched the first of three debates Sunday by bickering over who was responsible for 2020 and 2021 Republican election losses, with former U.S. Sen. David Perdue pressing his attack that incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp is to blame for Democratic control in Washington, while Kemp fired back that Perdue was trying to pass the blame for his own loss to Democrat Jon Ossoff.
Perdue continued to showcase support for debunked claims that Democrats fraudulently won the 2020 presidential election and the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia.
“The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen,” Perdue said during a debate sponsored by Atlanta’s WSB-TV. “All the madness we see today … all that started right here in Georgia when our governor caved and allowed out radical Democrats to steal our elections.”
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