David Perdue let Donald Trump play with—and break—his Senate career, and then offered himself up as a human cannonball in Trump’s Georgia revenge scheme. It misfired.
Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who will now face Kemp in a rematch in November, was “demeaning her own race,” Perdue
The defeat should mark the nadir for Perdue, a once-successful figure in Georgia business and politics turned into a twice-losing errand boy for Donald Trump.When Perdue arrived onto the political scene as a candidate for Senate in 2014, he wasn’t one of the crazies. The GOP primary that year was a crowded, messy affair, with candidates of all stripes leapfrogging each other to get further and further to the right. Consider, for example, then-Rep.
But like so many Republicans in Congress, Perdue recast himself in Trump’s image following the 2016 presidential election. On immigration, for example, he co-introduced a bill with Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton that would haveby 50 percent over a decade, marking the GOP’s shift from one that sought to reduce illegal immigration to one that sought to reduce legal immigration levels as well. Prior to Trump, this was a fringe view pushed by an obscure policy aide to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
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