ATLANTA In a closing-stretch push for all-out victory, Republican Senate candidate David Perdue brought in the big guns over the weekend. Party powerhouses Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul rallied small-town crowds to get behind the former CEO of Reebok and Dollar General and send him to Washington.
I can think of only a few businessmen that we have, Paul told the crowd at a town square rally in McDonough, just south of Atlanta. And I think it would be great to have someone with some common sense with some business sense to create jobs.
Job creation is the centerpiece of Perdues message to Georgia voters. As CEO of Dollar General, Perdue led a massive expansion of the company, creating 20,000 jobs in the process.
The number one thing that we need to be talking about is whos going to go to the Senate and add value to the debate of how to get the economy going to get people back to work again right here in Georgia, Perdue told Fox News.
The race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss is surprisingly competitive discomfortingly so for Republicans. What should have been a sure thing is now neck-and-neck, with Perdue locked in a dead heat against Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn.
Nunn is the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, who served 24 years in the Senate at a time the deep South was deep blue.She is also the CEO (on leave of absence) for George H.W. Bushs Points of Light Foundation putting a foot in both the Democratic and Republican camps. In fact, Nunn is running her campaign more like a Republicrat a person who talks like a Republican, but whose blood runs Democratic blue.
"There are lots of things I agree with the president on and there are lots of things I disagree with the president on," Nunn told the audience at a debate Sunday night. Where does she disagree? She believes the president should approve the Keystone pipeline; thinks he has made irresponsible cuts to the military; and thinks he needs to do more to work with Congress and tackle the debt. But she agrees with him on key issues like an increase in the minimum wage as well as the mother of all campaign issues, ObamaCare.
Thats the ground Perdue is tilling in the closing days of the race as he makes the case that a vote for Nunn would be a rubber stamp for the presidents policies.
He has said that his issues his policies are on the ballot this time in this Senate race, Perdue told Fox News aboard his campaign motorhome. And this week he said you need to elect Michelle Nunn in Georgia to continue his policies. And I would argue those policies are failing by any measure.
Perdue also is warning voters that should she win, the first vote Michelle Nunn will cast will be to reinstate Harry Reid as majority leader. But at Sundays debate, she indicated her vote is not a lock.
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Republican battles to stave off Democratic rival in tight Georgia Senate race