Ex-President Donald Trump had to do quite a bit of arm-twisting to get former Sen. David Perdue (R) to run against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in the upcoming gubernatorial election, according to the Washington Post.
First of all, the Post reported that Perdue privately blamed his defeat in the Jan. 5, 2021 Senate runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff on Trump, who was at the time fresh-off his crusade of falsely claiming Georgia’s election process was rigged — therefore giving GOP voters the impression that they shouldn’t bother voting in the high-stakes Senate race in the first place.
Trump reportedly tried to pressure Perdue into running for governor in early 2021 during two rounds of golf at the ex-president’s Mar-A-Lago resort. However, Perdue wasn’t persuaded, and Kemp told advisers that the former senator had promised him he wouldn’t run, according to the Post.
Then Trump reportedly had Perdue come over two more times for a golfing session in the months following his first lobbying attempts and drew up a poll that apparently indicated the former senator could beat Kemp.
Perdue finally caved and launched his campaign with Trump’s stamp of approval in December, even though his friends and advisers had urged him not to out of fear his bid might fracture the GOP, the Post reported.
Since jumping into the race, Perdue has made it clear that he’s running on the sole platform of lying about the 2020 election on Trump’s behalf and blaming nonexistent voter fraud on Kemp, who’s currently enjoying a double-digit lead over Perdue in the polls.
During the GOP primary debate on Sunday, Perdue began his opening remarks with a false declaration that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen,” leading to an ugly standoff between him and Kemp as they squabbled over who was more dedicated to upholding Trump’s lies about voter fraud.
I remain at a loss as to the allure of Mango Mussolini. Greed and envy are great motivators, but I still don’t get it why people follow, bow and scrape to him.
I get it -
Everything Trump Touches Dies!
But why does it have to take so damn long!
Cowardice, weakness, laziness, greed, compounded by ego and malleable, pliable minds. Fat Boy is a predator with one skill - finding weak men and exploiting their weaknesses. The same way a pedophile can smell a neglected child, this glutenous pile of shit can sniff out lazy imbeciles and promise them what they most desire. It’s not hard if you’re soulless and evil.
I find it fascinating so many supposed manly-man men in the Trumpist Party so willingly out themselves as total cucks after a few rounds of golf with the orange one. Hell, Graham folded after only one. Riding the links with Trump must be a particular hellish form of psychological, and possibly physical, torture.
Just imagine a horrible caricature of a superhero named Cap’n Asshole or something to that effect, something that might appeal to the base, the mouth breathers, the Id-locked, the 30 year old thirteen year olds, the racists, the bigots, then you start to get the appeal.