Donald Trump speaks directly to the camera in the first television ad aired by Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, underscoring how much that race centers on the former president and his grievances about the 2020 election.
The 30-second spot, which debuted Tuesday, opens with “a message from President Trump” in which Trump excoriates the state’s incumbent Republican governor, Brian Kemp, for not intervening to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in Georgia.
“The Democrats walked all over Brian Kemp,” says Trump, who is flanked by a pair of American flags. “He was afraid of Stacey ‘The Hoax’ Abrams. Brian Kemp let us down. We can’t let it happen again.”…
Trump heavily lobbied Perdue to challenge Kemp, a move that ensured that Trump’s false claims that the 2020 vote was stolen from him would continue to be heard in Georgia.