{"id":1435439,"date":"2022-04-13T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435439"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:50:24","slug":"georgia-poll-brian-kemp-has-wide-lead-over-david-perdue-in-governors-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-poll-brian-kemp-has-wide-lead-over-david-perdue-in-governors-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Poll: Brian Kemp Has Wide Lead over David Perdue in Governor&#039;s Primary"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgeorgia-poll-brian-kemp-has-wide-lead-over-david-perdue-in-governors-primary%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=1435439&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\">Gov. Brian Kemp has a commanding 16-point lead over former Sen. David Perdue in Georgia\u2019s Republican gubernatorial primary, according to a polling memo released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The polling memo was <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21583197\/cygnal-polling-memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> by Cygnal and first provided to the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> by Hardworking Georgians, which the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/the-jolt-internal-poll-shows-brian-kemp-close-to-outright-primary-win-despite-trump-fight\/RXIY3NJVVFBNTKD7EMIRWWEXTY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> as a pro-Kemp group.<\/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>The poll was conducted about two weeks ago, March 30\u201331, among 824 likely Republican primary voters and found Kemp receiving 49 percent support compared to Perdue\u2019s 33 percent support, while 12 percent of respondents said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Kandiss Taylor, who is running to the right of both candidates, received five percent support, and another Republican candidate, Catherine Davis, received one percent.<\/p>\n<p>The poll\u2019s findings are significant in that Kemp could potentially avoid a runoff election, which would occur if a candidate does not attain 50 percent of the vote in the primary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another recent poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/06\/georgia-poll-possible-runoff-warning-sign-kemp-governors-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken<\/a> by Emerson College Polling and the <em>Hill<\/em>, had found Kemp farther away from the 50 percent mark and in a more vulnerable position in the event of a runoff. That poll found that if Kemp and Perdue faced off in a runoff, Kemp led Perdue by a slim margin of five points.<\/p>\n<p>The Cygnal poll painted a more optimistic picture for Kemp, showing that in the case of a runoff between Kemp and Perdue, the governor led by 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>The memo warned, \u201cA costly runoff would be devastating for the Republican Party ahead of what will surely be a bruising general election versus Stacey Abrams.\u201d Abrams, who narrowly lost to Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial race, is the uncontested Democrat candidate the winner of the Republican primary will face in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue launched his campaign against Kemp in December and was quickly endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who has weighed in heavily on Georgia\u2019s primary races with the ultimate mission of unseating Kemp, whom Trump has targeted over Georgia\u2019s 2020 election process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20250306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1238124584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20250306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1238124584.jpg\" alt=\"DALTON, GA - FEBRUARY 01: Former U.S. senator and Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue greets supporters at a campaign event on February 1, 2022 in Dalton, Georgia. Purdue kicked off his campaign, in which he will first face incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in the May primary, the winner of which will face likely Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, speaking on teacher pay and law enforcement. The Perdue campaign aired a video endorsement by former President Donald Trump at the event. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Sen. David Perdue greets supporters at a campaign event on February 1, 2022, in Dalton, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cygnal poll noted the \u201cTrump effect is baked in\u201d as 87 percent of Republican voters were aware that Trump was backing Perdue.<\/p>\n<p>A second Cygnal poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21583198\/cygnal-general-election.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted<\/a> April 6\u20139 among 800 likely general election voters, measured Kemp\u2019s and Perdue\u2019s winnability against Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>The general election poll found Kemp ahead of Abrams by six points, 50 percent to 44 percent, and Perdue trailing Abrams by one point, 47 percent to 48 percent.<\/p>\n<p>That poll also asked respondents about priority issues and revealed \u201ccombatting inflation and lowering gas prices\u201d was the number one issue, receiving 23 percent. Other top issues were \u201cgrowing the economy and bringing more jobs to Georgia\u201d at 22 percent, \u201cmaking healthcare more affordable\u201d at 17 percent, \u201cimproving education\u201d at 11 percent, and \u201cstopping illegal immigration\u201d at eight percent.<\/p>\n<p>The primary poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.36 percent, and the general election poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.44 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The primary takes place on May 24, and early voting begins in less than a month, on May 2.<\/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>Gov. Brian Kemp has a commanding 16-point lead over former Sen. David Perdue in Georgia\u2019s Republican gubernatorial primary, according to a polling memo released Tuesday. The polling memo was published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435439","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\/1435439","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435439\/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=1435439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}