Georgia GOP gubernatorial clash: Kemp uses Trump’s past words to target Perdue

EXCLUSIVE: An outside group aligned with Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia is using former President Trump’s own words in a new TV ad to take aim at former Sen. David Perdue, the Trump-backed candidate who is primary challenging the conservative governor.

“President Trump worked hard, putting America first,” the narrator in a TV commercial by Georgians Leadership Fund says.

TRUMP TAKES AIM AT KEMP IN PERDUE’S FIRST AD BLITZ

The spot includes a clip from Trump from a 2016 GOP presidential primary debate saying, “I’m going to bring jobs back from China” before the narrator charges that “David Perdue sent American jobs to China, over and over again, by the thousands, and made millions.”

The ad, which was shared first nationally with Fox News, ends with the narrator claiming that Perdue is “putting himself first and America last.”

This isn’t the first time Georgians Leadership Fund has attacked Perdue, a former corporate chief executive officer, over the issue of outsourcing jobs to China. The Kemp-allied group went up with a similar themed ad in December, soon after Perdue declared his candidacy.

At the time, Perdue’s campaign hit back, accusing Kemp of “using recycled lies from Democrats.” 

ENCOURAGED BY TRUMP, PERDUE LAUNCHES PRIMARY CHALLENGE AGAINST KEMP

“It shocks no one that a guy who sided with Democrats over President Trump is now telling lies about a Trump-endorsed candidate,” the Perdue campaign told Fox News. “Georgia needs a governor who won’t bow down to the woke mob and who’s willing to make waves to get things done. Brian Kemp failed Georgia. David Perdue will be our next governor.”

Georgians Leadership Fund told Fox News it’s spending in the low six figures to run the commercial on statewide TV and on digital starting this weekend.