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Politically Georgia: Previewing the Kemp-Perdue debate

Brian Kemp and David Perdue

Credit: AJC

Credit: AJC

Brian Kemp and David Perdue
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April 22, 2022

It’s the debate we’ve been waiting for.

Gov. Brian Kemp and former U.S. Sen. David Perdue go head-to-head Sunday in what is expected to be a fiery debate at the WSB-TV studios.

In this episode of the Politically Georgia podcast, AJC political insiders Greg Bluestein and Patricia Murphy discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the two candidates ahead of the showdown.

Plus, our team looks at how the tone of Senator Raphael Warnock’s campaign is changing since his 2020 run.

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Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter.

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Patricia Murphy is the AJC's senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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