{"id":42884,"date":"2021-12-06T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42884"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:45:35","slug":"david-perdue-announces-bid-for-georgia-governor-setting-up-primary-against-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42884","title":{"rendered":"David Perdue announces bid for Georgia governor, setting up primary against Kemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Former Sen.\u00a0David Perdue\u00a0(R-Ga.) launched a challenge to Georgia Gov.\u00a0Brian Kemp\u00a0(R) on Monday, setting up a primary fight between two Republican titans in one of the most competitive political battlegrounds of the 2022 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue has been weighing a bid for office ever since he lost a runoff election to Sen.\u00a0Jon Ossoff\u00a0(D-Ga.) in January. He ruled out another Senate bid earlier this year, but had grown more serious in recent months about challenging Kemp, a one-time ally of\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0who irked the former president last year after he refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>He enters the GOP primary with the support of Trump, who encouraged Perdue to challenge Kemp and is expected to throw his full political weight behind the former senator\u2019s campaign.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen.\u00a0David Perdue\u00a0(R-Ga.) launched a challenge&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42885,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions\/42885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}