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Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue released an advertisement Monday showing President Donald Trump lavishing praise on his campaign. The ad urges all GOP voters to vote early ahead of the state’s January 5 runoff elections.
Perdue has spent much of the past week labeling his Democratic Senate challenger, Jon Ossoff, as part of the “liberal leftist agenda,” although he has not detailed his repeated accusation. Perdue, a longtime corporate executive for brands like Reebok and Dollar General, authorized the ad, which depicts Trump claiming “nobody in Washington” stands behind his “America first” strategy more than the GOP senator. Trump and Perdue have both called on Georgia Republicans to “get out and vote” after several of the president’s allies encouraged them to sit out the election over fears it’s “rigged.”
Perdue appeared on Fox News Monday morning urging “everyone on our side” to get out and vote before Christmas Day. “Don’t wait until January the 5th,” he repeatedly told his supporters.
“David Perdue has been one of the toughest fighters for our America First – America First – agenda in Washington,” Trump tells rallygoers in the Perdue for Senate ad released Monday.
“And there is nobody in Washington that is more respected than David Perdue. Now you know a lot of people, friends of mine, say, ‘Let’s not vote. We’re not going to vote because we are angry about the presidential election.’ But if you do that, the radical left wins. You gotta get out and vote. So get out and vote. Get out and vote,” Trump continues, offering more praise of Perdue’s re-election bid.
Trump has repeatedly attacked GOP Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for not doing more to overturn the presidential election results, which saw Joe Biden defeating him by around 12,000 votes. Trump lashed out at Raffensperger as “an enemy of the people” after he certified, and then later re-certified, the state’s election results.
“We are the last line of defense against this radical leftist agenda that the Democrats are trying to perpetrate on America. If we win Georgia, it’s very simple, we save America,” Perdue told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
Perdue was criticized this week for complaining about “out of state” cash being dumped into the Georgia election, while he simultaneously was found to be accepting out-of-state donations.
Perdue and fellow GOP Senate candidate Kelly Loeffler released a joint statement Monday calling on Raffensperger to release “a final list of newly registered voters.” The move falls in line with Trump’s baseless claims the state allowed countless unregistered voters to cast ballots in his failed re-election bid last month.
Despite all of the criticism from the president and national attention, Raffensperger told The New York Times in a podcast released Monday that he “was one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters when he was running in 2016.” He has repeatedly stated he wants “elections to get back to being boring again” and that he will still vote for the Republican Senate candidates “because I am a Republican.”
Newsweek reached out to the Perdue and Ossoff campaigns for additional remarks Monday morning.
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