At a lush golf course in Acworth, Allison Royston is waiting to meet David Perdue.

Royston, whose two-year-old is waddling around nearby, is still undecided in the Republican primary for governor on Tuesday.

She voted for incumbent Governor Brian Kemp in 2020, who’s now seeking a second term. But Royston says he didn’t do enough to investigate election fraud in 2020.

“I think that was a big mess up on Kemp’s part,” she says.

Ever since Joe Biden won Georgia, former President Donald Trump has spread false claims about election fraud in the state.

Many voters – and candidates – have taken his cue.

Most prominently is David Perdue, the former U.S. senator who lost his seat last year to Democrat Jon Ossoff. Trump urged Perdue to mount a primary challenge against Kemp, spurred by the belief that Georgia’s governor did not do enough to help Trump overturn his election loss.

Georgia’s GOP primary is a test of whether these claims still resonate.

Royston is pleased to hear Perdue talking about the 2020 election, though she wants to make sure that’s not his only message.

“I really want to hear some things about how he plans to beat Stacey [Abrams] because Kemp has already beaten Stacey. Perdue has lost to Ossoff.”

The organizer of this meet and greet is Cody Oakes, a construction company executive who is all in for Perdue and says he won’t support Kemp if he wins the primary.

“I wouldn’t vote for him. I wouldn’t vote for Stacey. I wouldn’t know what I would do,” he says.

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