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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on July 23, 2014, 09:03:17 AM
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I do believe that this is a Tea Party win. Note how the victorious Perdue immediately praised the defeated Kingston. I've heard that the two had an agreement that, whoever won, the other would immediately and enthusiastically support the winner in the general election. (It's a Townhall.com link.)
Perdue defeats Kingston in Georgia Senate runoff
AP News | Jul 22, 2014
ATLANTA (AP) — Businessman David Perdue has defeated longtime Rep. Jack Kingston in the Republican runoff for Georgia's U.S. Senate nomination, setting up a matchup against Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn that will help determine which party controls the Senate for the final years of the Obama administration.
Tuesday night's primary runoff win validates Perdue's campaign as an outsider. The former CEO of Reebok, Dollar General and the failed textile firm Pillowtex, Perdue offered his private sector record and tremendous wealth as proof that he can help solve the nation's ills in a Congress largely devoid of experience business titans. He spent more than $3 million of his own money blasting Kingston and other primary rivals as career politicians, including one ad depicting his rivals as crying babies.
"I've never run for anything in my life. I'm humbled," Perdue told supporters gathered at a hotel in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.
With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Perdue led Kingston by about 8,000 votes — enough for 50.9 percent of the vote. Perdue also led Kingston in the initial May primary, but both men fell well shy of the majority necessary to win without a runoff.
Perdue immediately shifted to general election mode, praising Kingston and calling for party unity in the race against Nunn and Libertarian Amanda Swafford. Republicans need six more seats to regain a Senate majority for the final two years of President Barack Obama's tenure, and the GOP cannot afford to lose retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss' seat.
I'm thinking that Numm's campaign is going to paint Perdue as a crazy Tea Partier, but as Obamacare subsidies dry up and the cost of health insurance skyrockets, ity's going to wipe out any advantage that Nunn's campaign may be able to have.
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2014/07/22/gop-voters-in-ga-to-decide-senate-nominee-n1864538