When President Donald Trump weighed into Georgia’s Republican Primary on Wednesday afternoon and endorsed Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a tweet, University of Georgia political science professor Charles Bullock was very surprised.
“Something had be done to set this up. The president wouldn’t just get up from lunch and say, ‘I think I send out a tweet about this Georgia election,’” Bullock said.
He said the closest Georgia connection to Trump is Agriculture Secretary and former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and his cousin, U.S. Senator David Perdue.
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