Former Georgia GOP Senator David Perdue, less than a year removed from his defeat at the hands of Jon Ossoff, today re-entered the political arena by formally challenging sitting Republican Governor Brian Kemp in next year's GOP primary.
Perdue is doing so with the blessing of former President Donald Trump who remains bitterly angry for refusing to overturn the election results which saw Joe Biden become the first Democrat to carry Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992. Back in February, Perdue signaled he would challenge Raphael Warnock but quickly decided against it.
A Perdue-Kemp primary fight will make much of the race smooth sailing for Democrat Stacey Abrams. Regardless of which Republican faces Abrams, the independent variable will be Georgia's new voter law and how Republican appointed election officials could replace local election boards in Democratic counties overturn the will of the people in case Abrams prevails at the polls unless of course the DOJ is successful in its challenge to overturn the law. But chances are such a battle would make its way to the Supreme Court which has a 6-3 conservative majority.
Should Perdue prevail against Kemp and defeat Abrams the question becomes what Perdue does in the 2024 election. If Biden were to prevail again in Georgia there is a reasonable suspicion that Perdue and his allies could do for Trump what Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were unwilling to do in 2020 and find him the votes he needed to win, if Georgia's election law doesn't do it for them first.
While Abrams has the luxury to sit back and watch Kemp and Perdue bloody each other she does have to prepare contingency plans for the Republican shenanigans which are sure to follow next fall.
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