Washington (CNN)Former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia launched his campaign for governor on Monday with a false claim about his chief opponent in the Republican primary, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.
In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Perdue accused Kemp of handing control of Georgia elections to Democrat Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia state House minority leader who is now making a second run for governor after Kemp beat her in a close race in 2018.
"Over my dead body will we ever do what Kemp did, and that is turn our elections over to Stacey Abrams," said Perdue, who lost his US Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff in early 2021. "We'll never let that happen again."
Perdue's claim echoed language he used in the announcement video he released earlier on Monday: "Over my dead body will we ever give Stacey Abrams control of our elections again."
Perdue didn't elaborate on how Kemp supposedly turned over Georgia elections to Abrams, and his campaign didn't respond to CNN's requests for clarification. But his comments on Fox were preceded by some relevant context from Hannity.
Hannity had complained just over a minute earlier about a 2020 legal settlement between Democratic organizations and Georgia elections officials. That settlement, which Trump has denounced repeatedly, laid out statewide standards for how Georgia counties had to verify absentee voters' signatures and for how quickly those counties had to contact absentee voters whose ballots were at risk of being...
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