Georgia primaries: Trump-backed Perdue trounced by Pence's pick

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Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican party suffered a slip after his handpicked candidate for Georgia governor was trounced at the polls. Mr Trump recruited David Perdue, an ex-senator, to challenge incumbent Brian Kemp in the Republican primaries.

Mr Kemp had rejected Mr Trump’s pleas to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results.

But as ballots were counted, Mr Perdue was so far behind that he was defeated before half the votes were in.

The primary was being closely watched as a test of Mr Trump’s hold over the Republican party, as voters decide who will be the party’s official candidate in the midterm elections in November.

The midterms will decide who controls the two chambers which make up Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - and fall halfway through President Joe Biden’s term in office.

Trounced … :rofl:

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Not sure this means much. Trump backs some weird candidates. Then when they lose, he throws them under the bus and claims it was their fault and he would have done better.

And people seem to believe him.

He endorsed an accused child molester who then lost. Nothing happened to Trump’s popularity at the time.

The race between Kemp and Abrams is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

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talk about shooting yaself in ya own left foot all the time

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I’d be good with him shooting himself in the foot if it wasn’t causing pain to the rest of us.

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True … :laughing:

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with all this shooting going on in usa it’s a puzzled no one has tried for Trump? maybe illustrates that all the shooters are non-democrats?

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And this is just the beginning of Trump’s slippery slide downhill.
Can’t be too soon for most of us in the US.

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