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To understand former senator David Perdue’s campaign for governor of Georgia, consider that he’s attacking a fellow Republican against whom he is not running. Brad Raffensperger’s sin? He wouldn’t bow to former president Donald Trump’s demand to hand him the state last November.
Perdue attacked Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, and Gov. Brian Kemp, whom he’s challenging in the GOP primary, in a two-and-a-half minute video in which he accuses both men of having betrayed Trump without ever explicitly endorsing Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.
The message is obvious to anyone who has followed Trump’s baseless charges he was cheated out of a second term, as well as GOP efforts to install Republicans in control of state elections, pass laws curtailing electoral practices they blame for President Biden’s victory and whitewash the Jan. 6 riot that disrupted certification the Democrat won.
And it’s a test of how salient such a message will be in the 2022 midterms, the first one since President Biden won the White House and Trump voters would have a chance to punish those who believe...
The League clarified that its forums are intended to give voters a side-by-side look at candidates’ platforms, not to endorse contenders. The League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area (LWVS...