Our AJC colleague Nicholas Fouriezos is on the trail with David Perdue, and he sends the following dispatch:
VALDOSTA – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee became the latest past or future White House contender to campaign with Republican U.S. Senate hopeful David Perdue this morning, and he continued the campaign's theme of lambasting the Senate Majority Leader.
“Harry Reid has created the roach motel of legislation,” Huckabee told more than 100 GOP supporters crowded together at Smoking Pig BBQ in Lowndes County. “The bills come in, but they never come out.”
Now a Fox News talk show host, Huckabee railed against what he and Perdue have said are 360 House Bills that have languished without being put up for a vote. The lack of legislative action in recent years, they say, is not due to Republican recalcitrance.
“The biggest fire hazard in Washington D.C. is all that legislation that Harry Reid has let pile up and won’t let go to the floor,” Huckabee said.
At a later stop in Tifton, the former Baptist preacher upped the ante – adding a motivating touch to another packed house of rowdy Republicans.
“Let me be honest – Republicans will not get a majority if they don’t get David Perdue,” Huckabee said, adding that the race was no longer just important to Georgians. “The fact is that the policies his opponent would put in policy, as she would go right along with President Barack Obama and Harry Reid, are the policies that put us in this place today.”
Huckabee admitted that most present had already made up their mind, with the election only four days away and early voting ending today. But he added a new responsibility to those present: Don’t just vote, but bring those you know out as well.
Having served his opening act, Huckabee ceded the pulpit to Perdue in Tifton.
“Men and women in America deserve better than what we’ve gotten with this administration,” Perdue said. “We have a crisis on our hands.”
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