ASK
ASK IT
ASK IT TO
ASK IT TO BECOME A MEMBER, ANSWER THE MEMBERSHIP
QUESTIONS, WE WILL LET YOU IN
AND YOU CAN BE PART OF THIS
EXCLUSIVE LOCAL WEATHER
COMMUNITY.
COMMUNITY. >>> FORMER SENATOR DAVID PERDUE
IS CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR
OFFICE IN 2022, THIS TIME
AGAINST REVEREND RAPHAEL
WARNOCK.
WARNOCK.
WARNOCK. DR. ANDRE GILLESPIE JOINS US.
DID IT SURPRISE YOU?
>> NO, IT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME,
ESPECIALLY SINCE SENATOR
WARNOCK ONE IN A SPECIAL
ELECTION AND SENATOR PERDUE
ONE PRETTY NARROWLY.
THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE HIS BEST
OPTION TO GET BACK INTO
POLITICS.
POLITICS.
POLITICS. IT IS NOT
IT IS NOT
IT IS NOT WOULD SEE AN EXPERIENCED
SENATOR TRY TO SEEK ANOTHER
TERM AFTER A SENATOR WHO WON A
SPECIAL ELECTION.
SPECIAL ELECTION. >> TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN
THIS MATCHUP.
THIS MATCHUP. HE WAS CAMPAIGNING AGAINST NOW
SENATOR JON OSSOFF THAT HE
WOULD BE GOING AGAINST SENATOR
WARNOCK THIS TIME AROUND.
>> I SUSPECT A SENATOR PERDUE
IS WEIGHING THE IDEA THAT THE
WINDS WERE SOMEWHAT EXCEPTIONAL.
THAT PEOPLE HAD REALLY STRONG
FEELINGS BECAUSE OF THE
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, BECAUSE
OF THE DIVISIVENESS OF THE
TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
TRUMP PRESIDENCY. I THINK HE MAY BE VIEWING THE
2020 ELECTION AS AN OUTLIER.
WE DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO
THAT QUESTION.
THAT QUESTION. HE MIGHT VIEW 2022 AS A NORMAL
ELECTION WHERE REPUBLICANS ARE
COMPETITIVE AND REVEREND
WARNOCK WOULD BE VULNERABLE.
IN THAT, IT WOULD BE JONES IN
2017 AND THEN LOST IN 2020.
TIME WILL TELL WHETHER OR NOT
GEORGIA IS GOING TO REMAIN SO
COMPETITIVE THAT SENATOR WARNOCK
CAN HOLD ONTO HIS SEAT OR
WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS A
DEMOCRATIC BLIP.
DEMOCRATIC BLIP. >> YOU TALK ABOUT THE TRUMP
FACTOR AND OF COURSE SENATORS
PERDUE AND LOEFFLER WENT INTO
100% WITH PRESENT TRUMP.
HOW DOES IT CHANGE THE DYNAMICS
WITHOUT PRESENT TRUMP BEING IN
THE PICTURE THIS TIME AROUND?
>> I WOULD IMAGINE BARRING ANY
CHANGE IN ATTITUDE AND IN
RHETORIC FROM SENATOR PERDUE,
HE MIGHT ENJOY THE SUPPORT OF
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD
HE WIN THE NOMINATION FOR THIS
SEAT IN 2022.
THE BIG TEST IS WHETHER OR NOT
PRESENT TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT HAS
THE SAME POWER AND THE SAME
IMPACT AS A FORMER PRESIDENT
THAN IT HAS WHEN HE WAS
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. I THINK THE JURY IS STILL OUT
ON HOW INFLUENTIAL HIS SUPPORT
WAS.
WAS.
WAS. WE
WAS. WE CAN TALK ABOUT CASES BUT
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS TO THINK
OF THIS IN A MORE MACRO SENSE.
THE OTHER ISSUE IS WHILE TRUMP
IS HIM IS
IS HIM IS
IS HIM IS 2022 CYCLE, IT BECOMES A
QUESTION OF WHETHER PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS A LIGHTNING ROD OR HE
CAN ACTUALLY REPEL PEOPLE
BECAUSE OF NEW THINGS THAT COME
UP BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 22,
WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
FORMER SENATOR PERDUE SAID THAT
GEORGIA IS NOT A BLUE STATE
EVEN THOUGH BOTH NEW SENATORS
ARE DEMOCRATS.
ARE DEMOCRATS. >> GEORGIA IS NOT A BLUE STATE
OR A RUBY RED STATE EITHER AND
THAT MAY BE THE CALCULATION
THAT SENATOR PERDUE AND OTHER
REPUBLICANS HAVE TO CONSIDER.
IT LOOKS BASED ON PREVIOUS
ELECTION CYCLES WHERE DEMOCRATS
WERE GAINING ON REPUBLICANS.
WHAT I SUSPECT WILL HAPPEN AND
WAITING FOR THE DATA TO CONFIRM
WHERE WE ARE IN FOR A DECADE
THAT THERE WILL BE CLOSE
MARGINS AND DEMOCRATS WILL WIN
SOME RACES AND REPUBLICANS WILL
WIN SOME RACES.
SENATOR PERDUE CANNOT REST ON
THE LAURELS THAT THE GEORGIA OF
2021 IS THE SAME AS GEORGE OF
2008 BECAUSE THAT GEORGIA
DOESN'T EXIST.
DOESN'T EXIST. >> I GUESS TALKING ABOUT THE