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Former President Donald Trump returned to the crucial battleground state of Georgia this weekend to support the large slate of candidates he has endorsed in the Peach State.
At a large rally in Commerce, Ga. on Saturday evening, Trump said former Sen. David Perdue will “save Georgia,” praising the candidate he’s backing to try and oust Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
The former president was also joined by former pro football star running back Herschel Walker, the clear front-runner in this year’s GOP Senate primary in Georgia.
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While Walker is leagues ahead of his Republican rivals in both the polls and fundraising in the race to face off in November’s midterm elections against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Perdue is struggling in both key campaign metrics as he tries to knock off the conservative Kemp in the gubernatorial primary.
The former president lambasted the governor, arguing that “Trump voters will not go out and vote for Brian Kemp.”
Kemp, a one-time ally, earned Trump’s ire starting in late 2020, after Kemp certified now-President Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia in the presidential election following multiple recounts of the vote. Trump, who had unsuccessfully urged the governor and other top Republican officials in the state to overturn the results, has now returned to Georgia twice to campaign against Kemp. Trump for months urged Perdue to challenge the governor, and late last year he endorsed Perdue a day after the former senator launched his bid.
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Perdue echoed Trump’s unfounded claims about the 2020 election, charging “our elections were absolutely stolen” and claiming that Kemp “sold us out.”
Trump remains the most popular and influential politician in the Republican Party, holding large rallies in states across the country. The former president is also a fundraising…
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