This seems relevant.
David Perdue went down to defeat in January because of the rural backlash against #elitist Republicans who didn’t want to give people $2000 checks. He decided not to challenge Warnock in 2022, but I think he’d be open to getting a Safe R House seat.
I’m thinking of a district that connects his black farmer base in Southwest Georgia to his college-educated suburban wine mom base around Atlanta. It’s actually not as hard as it sounds:
Stats:
56% Fulton/DeKalb wine moms
30% black farmers
14% other
Abrams 64%
Kemp 35%
Clinton 61%
Trump 36%
Perdue would have to carpetbag into this district, but that wouldn’t be a problem.
So, my point is Georgia Republicans could just draw a seat for Perdue instead of gerrymandering (this district is not a gerrymander because it’s compact in the sense that everyone in it respects David Perdue.) They should give him the bluest Atlanta suburbs so that they can draw a Trump +50 district to shore up weak candidate Kelly Loeffler, who’ll also get a House seat.
I think Perdue would win this seat by at least 20 points. Sure, it may become unwinnable for him in a century or so, but he won’t be alive by then.
Don’t leak this to the GA GOP, red avatars.
