The former GOP senator won’t try to rejoin the chamber next year after losing his seat in a close runoff race last month.
Then-Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., takes the stage at a campaign rally in Canton, Ga., on Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
(CN) A week after David Perdue announced he would explore running against Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in the 2022 midterm elections, the former Republican senator from Georgia said Tuesday he will stay out of the race.
“This is a personal decision, not a political one,” Perdue said in a statement. “I am confident that whoever wins the Republican primary next year will defeat the Democrat candidate in the general election for this seat, and I will do everything I can to make that happen.”
Georgia Republican Perdue will not seek Senate return in 2022
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