Posted on 05/19/2014 5:42:05 AM PDT by cotton1706
Former Georgia Secretary of State and Republican Senate candidate Karen Handel dared Democrats in Georgia to play the "war on women" and "income inequality" cards on her if she emerges as the party's nominee against Democrat Michelle Nunn.
Handel, whom former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed as a "fighter," has been battling for second place with Rep. Jack Kingston ahead of Tuesday's primary. Moderate businessman David Perdue has been the frontrunner, but if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the top two in Tuesday's primary will go to a runoff in July. Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey have failed to gain traction.
Handel, the only candidate who has had positive momentum in the last month, has surged into second and has even been within the margin of error of first in some recent polls. And she said that Palin, seen as the North Star of the conservative movement, "started the cavalcade" of conservatives, like Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, RedState's Erick Erickson, and Rick Santorum, who coalesced around her to help her combat her better funded challengers.
Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, the former Georgia Secretary of State said that even though the establishment is pouring in money into the race on behalf of Perdue and Kingston, the "grassroots and the people at the ground level need a voice "and they "cannot let the dollars drown out the voice of the people."
"I have a track record of putting conservative principles in place," Handel, who is the only candidate among the three who has run successfully for statewide office, said. She said she would relish the chance to go toe-to-toe with Nunn.
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Why Mann?
“I’m willing to “settle” with the electable conservative candidate.”
They said Reagan was unelectable, too. Despite what the “polling” may be, I’m going with Broun and praying there is a LARGE contingent of conservative Christians who will come out for him.
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He’s running the office now, comes across as being as competent as we’re likely to get. I’m hoping for the best given the history of those holding that role in recent years.
That’s good to know, but GA did vote for Jimmuh in 1980. Broun sounds like a great choice.
They are too uninformed to understand what they did.
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