Perdue Ditches Final Debate After Ossoff Roasts Him, Flees To Trump Rally Instead | Talking Points Memo

A day after Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff roasted Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) during a segment of their debate that went viral, the Georgia senator called off what was supposed to be their final debate on Sunday and decided to join President Trump at his Georgia rally that night instead.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1341282

Ossoff roasted Sen. David Perdue

And to his credit, Perdue did not interrupt.

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Perdue is scared shitless. He knows that Ossoff is just too good a debater and the good old Georgia boy bullshit doesn’t work in a state that has grown into one giant urban area made up of northern transplants.

Seriously have any of you been to Atlanta lately? Hugh city filled with high tech immigrants from the rest of America. A state in transition to something unrecognizable to the original inhabitants.

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Perdue seems to be more sophisticated then Trump.
He dodges without bone spurs.

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Smells like roast piglet in here…

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Maybe Perdue didn’t have enough time to invent a funny name for Ossoff. :thinking:

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If Trump wins the chicken will replace the eagle as our National bird.

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“Ossoff roasted Perdue…”

Even Mitch McConnell’s hands were less blackened than Perdue.

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Remember the ads he ran on TV in the '70s and '80s?

They were ground-breaking, in a way.

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Perdue’s decision to pull out of his final Georgia Senate debate against Ossoff happened just hours after his Democratic challenger’s scathing takedown of him during their debate Wednesday night went viral.

Trump supporters: men of steely nerve and unimpeachable character.
Not.

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Runs to Daddy Trump. Drops to his knees. Makes like a fish.

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“Let me think here… What’s the biggest gesture I can make to let everyone know ol’ John beat me like a rented mule at that vijo debate?”

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I hope Trump gives Perdue the McSally treatment .

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I genuinely have no idea how he thinks this helps him. Trump is actually trailing in Georgia according to 538. At a minimum, he’s not a boon to a candidate all the Trumpers already know is ‘one of them’. Now the lasting image of the debates is him getting roasted and the narrative is he ran away. Even showing up and spewing a bunch of lies, ala Dump, would leave a better final image than this.

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He tried with a visual version of Big Nosed Jew.

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Wrong gender.

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Its kind of perfect. Being labeled “Chicken Perdue” could actually lose him the election.

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Could there have been a Fly involved? :face_with_monocle:

(inquiring minds want to know…)

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