“We don’t need the traveling circus of Donald Trump to stay here in Georgia,” Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan said on Monday
. Abrams ran against Kemp in the 2018 race and lost by a narrow margin.
“It appears early on [Perdue] will try to carry Donald Trump’s water on the conspiracy stuff, and that seems to be the only tail wind he’s got. It’s unfortunate,” Duncan said. According to , Trump talked Perdue into entering the race to challenge Kemp, who refused to go along with Trump’s insistence he overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Duncan has positioned himself as a Trump critic. In his book,at his fellow Georgia Republicans for their attempts to “invalidate their own constituents’ votes.”
Regardless of Duncan’s wishes, one Trump adviser has said the former president plans to be involved in the race. “Trump’s endorsement matters to Republican voters and he’s going to be helpful because this race is important to him,” the adviser told
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