Georgia GOP Gubernatorial Hopeful Blasted for Comments About Stacey Abrams

Georgia Republican gubernatorial hopeful David Perdue is in hot water over comments he made about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

During an event on Monday, Perdue, a former Georgia senator, said, “ said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live.”

“Hey, she ain’t from here. Let her go back where she came from if she doesn’t like it here,” he went on.

The Washington Post notes, “Abrams, who served in the Georgia House of Representatives for a decade, moved to Georgia in high school and has lived there for most of her life.”

Perdue’s comments refer to a statement Abrams made on Saturday in which she said, “I am tired of hearing about how we’re the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live in.”

“When you’re No. 48 for mental health, when we’re No. 1 for maternal mortality, when you have an incarceration rate that’s on the rise and wages that are on the decline, then you are not the No. 1 place to live,” Abrams explained.

However, Perdue said, “The only thing she wants is to be president of the United States.”

“When she told Black farmers, ‘You don’t need to be on the farm,’ and she told Black workers in hospitality and all this, ‘You don’t need to be’ — she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that. I am really over this. She should never be considered for material for governor of any state, much less our state — where she hates to live,” he added.