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Former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) launched a challenge to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (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.
Ossoff's office noted that the senator, 34, is the youngest chair of the subcommittee, and that another Georgia Democrat, former Sen. Sam Nunn, led the subcommittee from 1979 to 1980 and from 1987 to 1994. Prior to being elected to the Senate, Ossoff was CEO of an investigative media production company. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters “As a former investigative journalist, Senator Ossoff is uniquely qualified to chair this prestigious subcommittee, which is instrumental to holding our nation’s most powerful entities accountable for wrongdoing,” Peters said. “I...
© Greg Nash The Democratic Senate campaign arm has tapped two veteran operatives to serve as its executive director and deputy executive director as the party looks to defend its razor-thin majority in the upper chamber next year. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced Wednesday that Christie Roberts will serve as executive director and Jessica Knight Henry will be its deputy executive director and chief diversity and inclusion officer for the 2022 cycle. Roberts was most recently a DSCC senior adviser last year, and Knight Henry served as the group’s political and e...
In a statement explaining his consideration, Perdue cast both Ossoff and Warnock as radical, a common GOP attack line, and said the Georgia Senate race will likely play a crucial role for both parties in determining control of the upper chamber next year. ADVERTISEMENT “First, Georgia is not a blue state and yet, as I write this today, the people of Georgia are represented by two of the most radically liberal individuals to ever occupy a seat on the hallowed floor of the United States Senate,” Perdue said in the statement. “They do not fairly represent most Georgians.” “Second, w...