A recent Fox poll found that Kemp is 60%, compared to just 28% for Perdue, a stunning discovery that suggests the current president will not just win – he will go wild.
Which, at first glance, may seem strange. In the end, former President Donald Trump encouraged Perdue to join the race in the first place and approved it. Kemp has been Trump’s number one enemy since refusing to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
But here you have to learn.
And this lesson is this: running a campaign solely on the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen is not enough to win.
The truth about Perdue’s candidacy is that he never found a message except a) the election was stolen (it wasn’t) and b) Kemp didn’t do enough to stop the theft.
In everything else, Perdue looked generally sympathetic to Kemp. Both were conservatives down the line who broadly supported the Republican turn to Trump.
“Perdue thought Trump was a magic wand,” said New House Speaker Newt Gingrich (and a Perdue supporter) of The New York Times. “In retrospect, it is difficult to understand David’s campaign, and it is certainly not the campaign that those of us who were for him expected.
The conclusion here seems simple: a campaign based solely on the idea that the 2020 elections were fraudulent – despite all the evidence to the contrary – is not enough to win.
While Trump-minded voters clearly agree with the unsubstantiated view that something is dangerous for the 2020 election, at least in Georgia, it is not an issue that in itself affects their votes. Perdue learns this lesson the hard way.
The point: Election denial is widespread among Republican voters. But the likely defeat of Perdue suggests that this is not a problem that makes people vote.
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