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As The Primary “Jockeying” Begins, Georgia Republicans Predict “A Wild West Shootout” Between GOP Candidates

Former Senator David Perdue’s brief flirtation with an attempted comeback is over, and new reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution now finds that the Republican “jockeying” for the 2022 Senate race in Georgia is expected to get messy. One GOP veteran in the state even predicted that “the Senate primary is about to be a Wild West shootout.”

The primary battle lines are already plagued by the same nasty internal feuding that cost the GOP both of Georgia’s Senate seats in January. Failed candidates Kelly Loeffler and Doug Collins are both considering campaigns and a potential scorched-earth relitigation of their bitter 2020 battle. Loeffler is haunted by her “short stint in the Senate” which “turned into a race to the party’s right,” while Collins’ failed run was spurned by top Georgia Republicans as he “pilloried Loeffler as a squishy moderate.” These two losing candidates are already taking shots at each other, and other Republican contenders are considering campaigns of their own –– a sign that the Georgia GOP’s divisive infighting won’t be ending anytime soon.

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  • Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, will be a formidable candidate. He’s got sky-high name recognition, the power of incumbency, a robust political network and a hefty fundraising list after his victory made him the first Black U.S. senator in Georgia history.
  • But Republicans are already jockeying for the chance to reclaim the seat. And the decision by former U.S. Sen. David Perdue to forgo a campaign cleared the way for other GOP contenders to run for the seat.
  • Warnock doesn’t mince words: “I am prepared to defeat whatever Republican they come up with.”
  • Instead, Loeffler’s short stint in the Senate turned into a race to the party’s right, as she dueled with then-U.S. Rep. Doug Collins for the hearts of conservatives and pumped more than $31 million of her own money into her campaign.
  • A four-term Republican congressman from the conservative bastion of Gainesville, Collins aggressively pitched himself for the open U.S. Senate seat – and was spurned by Kemp despite Trump’s initial support.
  • He and his allies pilloried Loeffler as a squishy moderate long before he entered the Senate race, and the two exchanged vicious barbs throughout the 2020 campaign.

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