The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ivanka Trump campaigns for Perdue
Senator and president’s daughter tout plans for ‘ great American comeback.’
The White House continues to shower attention on Georgia as it seeks to shore up the electoral prospects of President Donald Trump and U. S. Sen. David Perdue.
Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, met with Perdue for a public “conversation” Tuesday afternoon in Acworth. They touched on the president’s pandemic response, economic record and plans for a “great American comeback” if he’s reelected.
“We all know what’s at stake Nov. 3,” Trump told about 80 supporters gathered at the Cowan
Historic Mill. “That’swhywe are fighting so hard. We will leave it on the field to make sureourpresident, my father, secures four more years.”
Her visit comes as polls showthe president and Perdue locked intight races with theirDemocratic opponents, Joe Biden and Jon Ossoff, respectively. And it came on the second day of early voting in Georgia, with tens of thousands of peoplewaiting in line to cast their ballots.
Thepresident’s daughter is the latest top Republican to visit the state in recentweeks — a sign Georgia has become a toss- upstateina slugfest of an election.
Donald Trump Jr. visited Savannah and Kennesawon Monday. Vice President Mike Pence fired up conservative evangelicals in Atlanta two weeksago. Thepresidenthimself visitedAtlanta recently in an effort to appeal to Black voters, and he will return Friday for a rally in Macon.
Biden also has targeted Georgia, sending his wife, Jill, to Columbus and metro
Atlanta on Monday. It was the campaign’s first in- person visit to Georgia during the pandemic.
OnTuesday, IvankaTrump began her visit to downtown Acworth with a stop at Pizza by Fuscos, chatting with the owners about how the business has faredduring the pandemic.
Later, she spoke about a wide range of issues with Perdue at the historic mill. Among other things, they agreed COVID- 19 is the top issue in the finalweeks of the
campaign. Not surprisingly, both said the president has not gotten enough credit for his actions to stem the pandemic.
Trump said the president has led “the most extraordinary public- private mobilization since World War II” to increase the nation’s supply of ventilators and speed the development of vaccines.
“His leadership saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Perdue added. “The Democratswill never give us credit for that.”
Freshoffa debate withPerdue, Ossoffwas, indeed, giving Republicans no credit Tuesday.
“More than 210,000Americans are dead from a virus David Perdue compared publicly to the common flu while he privately bought up stock in a manufacturer of vaccines,” Ossoff said in a statementtosupportersTuesday. “He’s shown no empathy for hundreds of thousands of families who have lost so much. He’s taken no personal responsibility for lying to us and downplaying the threat.”
Perdue has said the trades werehandledbyadviserswho operatedindependently, and he later announced those third- party aides would no longer trade stocks in individual companies on his behalf. OneofPerdue’s ads also notes thattheDepartmentofJustice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee have cleared him of wrongdoing.
Such exchanges are likely to continue in the runup to theNov. 3 election. Early voting in Georgia runs through Oct. 30, including a Saturday on Oct. 24.