{"id":1387400,"date":"2022-03-17T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387400"},"modified":"2022-03-17T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T02:29:55","slug":"trump-fundraises-for-david-perdue-rips-georgia-gov-kemp-as-horrible-rino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fundraises-for-david-perdue-rips-georgia-gov-kemp-as-horrible-rino\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fundraises for David Perdue, Rips Georgia Gov. Kemp as \u2018Horrible RINO\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-fundraises-for-david-perdue-rips-georgia-gov-kemp-as-horrible-rino%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=1387400&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 class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump held an expensive fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday night on behalf of former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), who is challenging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in the gubernatorial primary in May.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has been a vocal critic of Kemp since the 2020 election, said in a statement after the fundraiser that he believes Perdue is the \u201conly\u201d candidate able to defeat Stacey Abrams, the Democrat voting rights activist who is also running for governor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDavid is a fearless and outstanding conservative leader, and he is the ONLY candidate who can beat Stacey \u2018The Hoax\u2019 Abrams this November,\u201d Trump stated.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Greg Bluestein shared a copy of the event invitation, which showed attendance cost $3,000 per person, and a photo with Trump and Perdue required raising or donating $24,200.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Perdue\u2019s campaign says it expects to raise $600,000 from tonight\u2019s fundraiser with Donald Trump, on top of the $150K that Perdue raised from Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s visit last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MF1Ea9g3ZM\">pic.twitter.com\/MF1Ea9g3ZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluestein\/status\/1504204803911606274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Perdue shared photos of the evening in a press release Thursday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20249162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/2d90f9ef-f7b4-c3bd-133e-04f306ae5f12.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Perdue campaign)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20249170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/35763e9a-7f83-b64c-c630-4cbd5555de2e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20249170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/35763e9a-7f83-b64c-c630-4cbd5555de2e-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Perdue-Trump\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Perdue campaign)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump also reiterated his disapproval of Kemp Wednesday night, calling the incumbent governor \u201ca horrendous RINO who has betrayed the people of Georgia, and betrayed Republican voters. As governor, Brian Kemp has repeatedly surrendered to Stacey Abrams and the Radical Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump then proceeded to bullet point reasons why Kemp was a \u201cRINO,\u201d all of which were related to the 2020 election, which Trump lost after two recounts in Georgia by a razor-thin margin of around 12,000 votes out of nearly five million cast:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Kemp allowed himself to be bullied into a disastrous consent decree that effectively abolished signature verification and allowed massive voter fraud to occur throughout the state of Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>True the Vote released bombshell evidence revealing a gigantic illegal ballot harvesting scheme\u2014involving more than 2,000 ballot traffickers\u2014that took place on Kemp\u2019s watch, and he does not even care.<\/li>\n<li>Under Kemp, Georgia officials took $45 million dollars from Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg to fund election-related activities\u2014over 90 percent of which was given to blue areas of the state to bolster Democrat turnout.<\/li>\n<li>He allowed a left-wing organization to mail out 2.2 million absentee ballot applications and place unsecured drop boxes throughout the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly targeted Kemp over the consent decree, which was a legal settlement made between the Georgia Democrat Party and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in March 2020. The decree elaborated on the state\u2019s process of signature verification on absentee ballots. The settlement was\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210414184030\/https:\/\/demdoc2.perkinscoieblogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/GA-Settlement-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a>\u00a0on the website of Mark Elias\u2019s then-law firm, Perkins Coie, a firm heavily involved nationally in fighting to loosen election laws in 2020. The settlement required a total of three election officials to sign off on absentee ballots that could not be signature verified. The settlement also specified the timeframe within which a voter must be notified of their rejected absentee ballot so that the voter had a reasonable opportunity to \u201ccure\u201d the signature issue.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/12\/exclusive-perdue-stacey-abrams-wants-give-illegal-aliens-right-vote-democrats-would-control-georgia-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> in an interview with Breitbart News in December that Kemp did not sign the settlement, but he argued the governor was complacent in the pre-election signature fight. \u201cBy the way, the governor actually didn\u2019t sign the consent decree. My argument with the governor is he didn\u2019t stop it. They didn\u2019t. They didn\u2019t bring it public. They didn\u2019t make this open,\u201d Perdue said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump\u2019s bullet points also referenced the election integrity group True the Vote\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/24\/exclusive-true-the-vote-conducting-massive-clandestine-voter-fraud-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> into alleged ballot harvesting, as well as the tens of millions of dollars that two Zuckerberg-funded nonprofits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/09\/zuckerberg-funded-nonprofits-spent-51-million-on-elections-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> on an array of election administration activities in Georgia in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, for his part, sought to address election fraud concerns after 2020 by passing the sweeping Election Integrity Act of 2021, a high-profile bill that led the influential Heritage Foundation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/16\/heritage-foundation-analysis-ranks-georgia-no-1-election-integrity-overhaul-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dub<\/a> Georgia\u2019s elections the most secure in the country after the bill was signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>The gubernatorial primary takes place on May 24, and so far Perdue has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/26\/poll-kemp-perdue-locked-tight-georgia-gop-primary-both-tied-stacey-abrams\/\">trailed<\/a> Kemp in polls by ten points or more, meaning Perdue has about two months to turn the tide in his favor.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s high-dollar fundraising, public statements, and planned rallies \u2014 one of which is slated for the end of March \u2014 indicates the former president is doubling down and investing heavily in unseating Kemp in the final two months of the race.<\/p>\n<p>The former president concluded in his statement Wednesday night, \u201cA vote for RINO Brian Kemp in this primary is a vote for Governor Stacey Abrams. A vote for David Perdue is a vote to save Georgia from the Radical Left!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump held an expensive fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday night on behalf of former Sen. 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