{"id":1091566,"date":"2021-12-06T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091566"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:28:46","slug":"trump-endorses-former-sen-david-perdue-in-bid-to-oust-brian-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorses-former-sen-david-perdue-in-bid-to-oust-brian-kemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Endorses Former Sen. David Perdue In Bid To Oust Brian Kemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-endorses-former-sen-david-perdue-in-bid-to-oust-brian-kemp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump Monday evening endorsed former Georgia Sen. David Perdue\u2019s primary challenge against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/29\/brian-kemp-donald-trump-georgia-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vowed to back a challenger<\/a> against Kemp for months after the Republican governor refused to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s win in the state in 2020. Perdue, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/08\/david-perdue-concedes-jon-ossoff-georgia-senate-runoff-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost his Senate seat<\/a> in a runoff in January, officially <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/brian-kemp-david-perdue-georgia-raphael-warnock-herschel-walker-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched his campaign<\/a> Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKemp has been a very weak Governor \u2013 the liberals and RINOs have run all over him on Election Integrity, and more,\u201d Trump said in a statement. \u201cMost importantly, he can\u2019t win because the MAGA base \u2013 which is enormous \u2013 will never vote for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perdue served one term in the Senate from 2015-2021. He and former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler lost their seats almost simultaneously to Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively, weeks after Trump himself lost the state, giving Democrats full control of Congress and the White House. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/brian-kemp-david-perdue-georgia-raphael-warnock-herschel-walker-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: David Perdue Seeking Political Comeback, Launches Primary Bid To Oust Kemp)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7078517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7078517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-President Donald Trump attends a rally in support of then-Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler in December 2020. Both went on to lose their races. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly pinned blame for the twin Senate losses on Kemp, a stance which Perdue echoed in his announcement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe failed all of us, and he cannot win in November. Instead of protecting our elections, he caved to [Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey] Abrams and cost us two Senate seats,\u201d Perdue said, explicitly blaming Kemp for his own loss.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also invoked Abrams, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-donald-trump-georgia-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely Democratic nominee<\/a> for governor in 2022, in his endorsement, saying that Perdue was the only candidate who could beat her. If Abrams and Kemp prevail in their respective primaries, it would lead to a rematch of one of the most hotly-contested governor\u2019s races in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia also faces a competitive Senate race, where Trump-endorsed NFL star Herschel Walker is the favorite to take on Warnock next year.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, however, Kemp and Perdue face what may be an absolutely brutal Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump Monday evening endorsed former Georgia Sen. David Perdue\u2019s primary challenge against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.Trump had vowed to back a challenger against Kemp for months after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}