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On main eve in Georgia, former Sen. David Perdue pushed again on feedback that fellow gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made in regards to the Peach State being the “worst state within the nation to stay.”

Abrams ought to “return to the place she got here from,” stated Perdue, a Trump-endorsed GOP candidate, on Monday as he accused the Democrat’s candidacy of being solely rooted in her political ambition to run for president.

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“She stated that Georgia is the worst place within the nation to stay. Hey, she ain’t from right here,” Perdue stated throughout an look on John Fredericks’s radio present. “Let her return to the place she got here from. She would not prefer it right here. The one factor she needs is to be president of america. She would not care in regards to the individuals of Georgia.”

Abrams was born in Wisconsin and lived in Mississippi earlier than shifting to Georgia to attend highschool and school, the place she has resided for years.

Perdue went on to reference feedback Abrams made throughout her 2018 marketing campaign about renewable vitality jobs, saying on the time that “individuals should not have to enter agriculture or hospitality to make a dwelling in Georgia.”

“When she informed black farmers, ‘You don’t should be on the farm,’ and he or she informed black employees in hospitality and all this, ‘You don’t should be,’ she is demeaning her personal race,” Perdue stated of Abrams, who’s black. “She ought to by no means be thought-about materials for governor of any state, a lot much less our state, the place she hates to stay.”

Abrams has confronted backlash from Republicans for her feedback over the weekend regardless of her makes an attempt to “contextualize” them on the time, arguing that the state was poorly ranked for maternal mortality, amongst different points.

“I’m uninterested in listening to about being one of the best state within the nation to do enterprise once we are the worst state within the nation to stay,” Abrams stated, as reported by NBC. “While you’re No. 48 for psychological well being, if you’re No. 1 for maternal mortality, when you could have an incarceration fee that’s on the rise and wages which can be on the decline, then you aren’t the No. 1 place to stay in america. However we will get there. You see, Georgia is able to greatness. We simply want greatness to be in our governor’s workplace.”

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Perdue is trailing GOP Gov. Brian Kemp in polling forward of Tuesday’s main.