Perdue will spend the next two weeks hiding from voters and dumping massive amounts of money into his race
Perdue hasn’t held a single public town hall while in office, with nothing announced
Ossoff continues to run an open, accessible statewide campaign
Atlanta, Ga. — With the United States Senate on a two-week recess, Georgia’s U.S. Senator, David Perdue (R-Ga.), is nowhere to be found. Perdue’s boss Mitch McConnell sent all Senators home for an in-state “work period” from July 3 – July 17, and Perdue doesn’t have one publicly-announced event or virtual event scheduled to address the unprecedented crisis facing the country.
Clearly, Perdue is scared of answering questions — so he’s hiding from Georgia voters.
And he’s clearly scared of Jon Ossoff, so he’s joining his allies in spending over $3 million against Jon in the next few weeks.
Amidst a surge of coronavirus cases, continued economic hardship for millions of Georgians around the state, and more questions about his support for a lawsuit to rip health care away from his constituents, Senator Perdue continues to hide from the people he claims to represent.
His absence should come as no surprise considering Perdue has failed to hold a single town hall during his time in office, instead getting caught selling meetings to donors and lobbyists for $7,500 corporate PAC checks.
As Perdue hides, Ossoff is taking his message straight to the people, holding and attending over 100 free and public town halls, forums, and events, both in-person and virtually, since launching his campaign last year.
Perdue last week announced a massive TV buy beginning this week, another sign of quickly growing GOP fears about losing the Peach State, and with it, both U.S. Senate seats. The National Republican Senatorial Committee also announced a $2.1 million TV buy through July, which comes only two weeks after the Trump campaign began spending in Georgia as well.
Perdue’s absence and large, early TV buys confirm that he is running scared in the neck-and-neck race with Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jon Ossoff.
“As Senator Perdue continues to hide, Jon is talking to voters across the state, offering them a unifying message of ensuring every Georgian has health care, taking on the corrupt campaign finance system, and passing a new Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act,” said Ellen Foster, Ossoff’s campaign manager. “Senator Perdue is hiding because he has no record to run on. Georgians are awake to Perdue’s self-dealing and record of failure, and it’s why they will choose a new path forward in November.”
Instead of warning his constituents about the impending pandemic in the early weeks of February, Perdue stood behind Trump the whole way, downplaying the public health and economic threats, all the while buying shares in a manufacturer of PPE and a Coronavirus vaccine maker, and selling stock in casinos and hotels in an apparent attempt to profit from the pandemic.
Ossoff last week held a virtual “1 GEORGIA” town hall in which he took questions from voters statewide on issues ranging from health care and the Perdue-backed GOP lawsuit to destroy the ACA and gut protections for the 1.8 million Georgians with pre-existing conditions, to voting rights and criminal justice reform.
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