Georgia primary to test Trump’s false claims

Bloomberg

The latest test of former President Donald Trump’s sway over Republican voters will wrap up Tuesday night in Georgia’s primaries. So far, it’s not looking good.
Former US Senator David Perdue, whom Trump tapped to oust incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp, has more than a 20 percentage point disadvantage in polls, in a race Trump once called a top priority. In the final week before the elections, Perdue only had a modest schedule of campaign events, while Kemp rushed around the state flanked by a who’s-who of Republicans unpopular with Trump, including former Vice President Mike Pence.
“He’s just not a very good candidate,” Charles Bullock, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Georgia, said of Perdue, who lost in the 2020 Senate race. “I think he tried harder this year than in the Senate race, but I don’t think he really likes campaigning.”
In Georgia, what is on the ballot in some of the highest profile races is Trump’s stolen-election claim after the state delivered the White House to Biden and control of the US Senate to Democrats in 2020.
The state primary is another test of Trump’s influence in the GOP as he teases a run for the White House in 2024 after a month of primaries with mixed results for his high-profile endorsed candidates.