ORLANDO — Former Sen. David Perdue detoured from the campaign trail in Georgia where he is attempting to oust Gov. Brian Kemp in the Republican primary to court national grassroots support at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Perdue has been endorsed by Donald Trump but is going to have to come from behind to defeat Kemp, who led the former senator in recent polls despite falling out of favor with the former president. In an interview Sunday after addressing activists from the main stage at CPAC, Perdue conceded his campaign has more work to do to inform Republican primary voters that he has Trump’s backing.
“I need him to be engaged in this primary,” Perdue told the Washington Examiner, in between interviews with national conservative media outlets broadcasting from CPAC. “I’m looking forward to getting him to Georgia and getting people [excited.] We’ve just got to make sure everybody gets out and votes.”“We’re not going to overdo it but he really wants to come,” Perdue added, when asked if he expects Trump to travel to Georgia to campaign for him more than once before the primary.
Trump endorsed Kemp in 2018 but abandoned his reelection, and recruited Perdue to challenge him, because he blames the governor for his loss to President Joe Biden in Georgia in 2020. The former president claims that he won the Peach State but that the election was stolen and argues Kemp did nothing about it despite a lack of supporting evidence for these assertions.
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