Perdue’s Mocking Of Harris’ Name Boosts Gives Dem Rival Ossoff A Big Fundraising Boost | Talking Points Memo

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Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) seemingly purposeful mispronunciation of Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) first name during President Trump’s campaign rally on Friday appears to have worked in Democratic rival Jon Ossoff’s favor. By Sunday evening, Ossoff raised more than $1.8 million from at least 42,000 donors since Perdue’s controversial and viral moment, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Not only is Perdue a liar, but he is a God damned, racist liar. His attempts to clean up his purposeful remarks speaks to his sleazy character.

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TPM, slow down a bit. Too many "Boost"s in the headline.

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Hooray for the POS! He’s lulled the GOP into thinking they don’t have to monitor their speech. Perdue is (ma)caca.
“Macaca” is the word that brought George Allen down here in VA several years ago. He was the favorite to win a Senate seat and called an Indian-American reporter (I think) a “macaca.” That was it for Allen.

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Let’s go, good people of Georgia! Get this done. Send Ossoff to the Senate.

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I wonder if Republican’s are ever going to figure out that no one is buying their “radical socialist agenda” line?*

ETA: *other than their ignorant, fearful base, of course.

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Sounds like David stepped in his own Perdoo-doo.

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There’s a point where the meanness goes too far, where enough people who would go along with bad behavior because they get what they want (tax cuts, SC justices) out of it. To many Americans, denigrating someone’s name like this crosses a line, because it was all about the foreign-sounding name of a woman of color. Sure, Trumps supporters eat that up, but to the average American it’s a bad look. It will be interesting to see if the polling against Perdue now changes, and if this inspires black people in GA to get out and vote even more.

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Wrong Perdue, though just as bad.

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Throw Ossof a few more bucks:

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And he’s not very good at lying, either. Have some pride, man. If you’re going to be a lying, racist, PoS, then have the decency to try for a decent cover story.
Sheesh.

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This is David Perdue—Sonny’s cousin.
Sonny is Secretary of Agriculture.

In the latest polling, Ossoff leads Perdue 51% to 45%.

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while republicans, who have promised better health care for 10? years, have nothing to offer.

And what’s this word salad from John James, who’s running against Peters for the US Senate?

“I believe that creating a system that we make the Affordable Care Act actually affordable by allowing competition to tax toward the regulatory reform, expanding risk pools across state lines, allowing associations so that people can have more choice,” James said. “Sen. Peters is on a gold-plated, taxpayer-funded plan that we don’t have access to but he gets to benefit.”

:thinking:

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So noted.

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Let’s hope this is his “macaca” moment.

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When you’re trying to snow the racist rubes, it’s important not to become a rube yourself. But they seem at this point that they just can’t help it.

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Yeah, we know, That is what the “-R” that follows name signifies

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Haha… Perdue Done it!

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Apprx $43 per person? I was involved with the campaign of one person in the 1980s. I learned that there are people who write a $1,000 check like you and I buy a pack of jujufruits.

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That 51% is key… runoffs are tough.

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