SAVANNAH, Ga. – In 2014, David Perdue introduced himself to Georgia voters as a corporate executive capable of bringing pragmatism to a Congress depicted in his first TV ad as a bunch of diaper-clad, crying babies.“Help me change the childish behavior up there," he asked voters in his winning campaign for U.S.
Senate. Since then, the Republican who promised level-headed maturity in Washington has been swept up in the tornado of Donald Trump's White House.
Perdue became one of the Senate's chief defenders of a president known for schoolyard insults and who still refuses to accept his own election defeat.Now Perdue is at the center of one of the most intense Senate races in recent memory, fighting for reelection in a Jan.