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David Perdue
United States Senator
from Georgia
Assumed office
January 3, 2015
Serving with Kelly Loeffler
Preceded bySaxby Chambliss
Member of the Georgia Ports Authority Board of Directors
In office
July 19, 2010 – April 2013
Preceded byBartow Morgan Jr.
Succeeded byJoel A. Wooten
Personal details
Born
David Alfred Perdue Jr.

(1949-12-10) December 10, 1949 (age 74)
Macon, Georgia, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Bonnie Dunn
​
(m. 1972)​
Children3 (1 deceased)
RelativesSonny Perdue (cousin)
EducationGeorgia Institute of Technology (BS, MS)
WebsiteSenate website

David Alfred Perdue Jr. (/pərˈduː/; born December 10, 1949) is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as the senior United States Senator for Georgia since 2015.

After twelve years as a management consultant, Perdue subsequently served as CEO of Dollar General. He ran for U.S. Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn.

Perdue is running for reelection in 2020 against Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. As neither candidate obtained more than 50% of the vote, they face each other in a January 2021 runoff election. After the November election, Perdue called for the resignation of Georgia's top elections official (a fellow Republican) and claimed that there were unspecified "failures" in the election without evidence.[2] Like his fellow Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, he is linked to the 2020 Congressional insider trading scandal, in which he allegedly violated federal law and sold stocks before the 2020 stock market crash, using knowledge given to him at a closed Senate meeting about how the U.S. would be affected by COVID-19.[3] The Senate Ethics Committee cleared Perdue of wrongdoing.[4]

Early life, education, and family

David Perdue was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of David Alfred Perdue Sr., and the former Gervaise Wynn, both schoolteachers.[5][6][7] David Perdue Sr., a Democrat, was the elected superintendent of schools for Houston County, Georgia, from 1961 to 1980, where he oversaw the desegregation of the school system.[8]

Perdue was raised in Warner Robins, Georgia, and graduated from Northside High School in 1968.[9][10] He left Warner Robins to start school at the United States Air Force Academy on June 23, 1968, after receiving an appointment from Congressman Jack Brinkley of Georgia.[11]

Perdue did not finish at the Air Force Academy, but went on to earn a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering (1972) and a master's degree in operations research (1975) from Georgia Tech.[12][13]

Perdue married Bonnie Dunn in August 1972.[14] The couple lives in Sea Island, Georgia.[15] They had a daughter who died in infancy[16] and have two sons, David A. Perdue III and Blake Perdue, and three grandchildren.[12][15] David Perdue Jr. is the first cousin of United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, a former governor of Georgia.[17]

Business career

Perdue began his career at Kurt Salmon Associates, an international consulting firm, where he worked for 12 years as a management consultant.[18] His first major corporate job was as senior vice president of Asia operations for Sara Lee Corporation, a position he took in 1992. His time at Sara Lee was followed by a stint at Haggar Clothing, where he became senior vice president of operations in 1994.[19]

In 1998, Perdue joined Reebok as a senior vice president, eventually rising to president and CEO of the Reebok Brand.[20] He is credited with rejuvenating its sneaker line. Perdue negotiated a contract with the National Football League that a former Reebok executive called "revolutionary" for repositioning the company's shoe brand.[6]

Perdue left Reebok in June 2002 to become the CEO of PillowTex, a North Carolina textile company.[21] The company had recently emerged from bankruptcy with a heavy debt load and an underfunded pension liability. Unable to obtain additional funding from the company's investors or find a buyer for the company, he left the company in 2003 after nine months on the job and $1.7 million in compensation.[22] An internal auditor noted that Perdue's long absences from its North Carolina Headquarters was "terrible for morale. We felt he'd given up."[23] Pillowtex closed several months later, leaving 7,650 workers out of work nationwide. With more than 4,000 jobs lost statewide, Pillowtex's closure resulted in the largest single-day job loss in North Carolina history at the time.[24]

After leaving Pillowtex, Perdue became CEO of Dollar General.[25] Before he joined the company, it had recently overstated profits by $100 million and paid $162 million to settle shareholder lawsuits. Perdue overhauled the company's inventory line and logistics network and updated its marketing strategy. After initially closing hundreds of stores, the company doubled its stock price and opened 2,600 new stores.[6] Perdue is credited for arranging the sale of Dollar General in 2007 to private equity investors KKR. He reportedly earned $42 million after the deal and Dollar General paid millions of dollars to settle shareholder lawsuits alleging that Perdue and other executives undersold shareholders.[26]

From 2007 to 2009, Perdue worked as a senior consultant for Indian chemical and textile conglomerate Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd.[27] In April 2011, he started Perdue Partners, an Atlanta-based global trading firm,[6] with his cousin, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue.[28] In 2012, Perdue Partners acquired Benton Express, an Atlanta-based logistics company.[29]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has described Perdue as having a "mixed" business record, but says that he was "known on Wall Street as a turnaround specialist who helps revive brands and reap rewards for investors."[6][26]

U.S. Senate

Perdue with Neil Gorsuch in 2017
Perdue with Brett Kavanaugh in 2018
Perdue with Amy Coney Barrett in 2020

2014 U.S. Senate campaign

Main article: 2014 United States Senate election in Georgia

Perdue touted his business experience, and particularly his experience at Dollar General, in running for political office as a Republican candidate. According to Perdue, "We added about 2,200 stores, created almost 20,000 jobs and doubled the value of that company in a very short period of time. Not because of me, but because we listened to our customers and employees." He was endorsed by the National Federation of Independent Business.[30]

Perdue's political opponents targeted his business career during the campaign, specifically for outsourcing work offshore. He said he was "proud of" finding lower-cost labor for some companies. Critics noted that he had contributed to a total of thousands of jobs lost following the final closure of Pillowtex, while Perdue left the company after nine months with a nearly $2 million buyout.[24][30] After being elected, he said he wanted to bring the perspective of "a working person" to Washington, D.C.

Reports also highlighted the overlap between Perdue's role as a Director of the Georgia Ports Authority from 2010 to 2013 and his founding with his cousin and former Governor Sonny Perdue of Perdue Partners, which acquired in 2012 a global logistics firm that provided transloading services at the Georgia ports.[31][32]

Perdue's campaign paid a $30,000 fine due to violations in fundraising reports from the 2014 election. The penalty came after an FEC auditor found the 2014 campaign received at least $117,000 in prohibited contributions and more than $325,000 that exceeded legal limits on campaign donations.[33] Perdue's campaign had raised nearly $14 million, setting records for funds raised in a Georgia Senate election.[34]

The race was considered competitive. Perdue defeated Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn 52.89% to 45.21%.[35]

Senate career

In June 2016, at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference, Perdue said, "We should pray for Barack Obama. But I think we need to be very specific about how we pray. We should pray like Psalms 109:8 says. It says, 'Let his days be few, and let another have his office'".[36] In a statement, Perdue's office clarified: "He in no way wishes harm to our president and everyone in the room understood that".[37]

On October 13, 2018, Perdue visited the Georgia Tech campus to campaign for gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp. During his visit, a Georgia Tech student approached Perdue and asked him a question about voter suppression. Perdue snatched away the student's phone, which was recording the exchange.[38] The student filed civil suit, alleging unlawful battery.[39]

Perdue became Georgia's senior senator after Johnny Isakson resigned on December 31, 2019.

With a net worth of $15.8 million, Perdue is one of the wealthiest members of the Senate.[1]

COVID-19 pandemic

Further information: 2020 Congressional insider trading scandal

On January 24, 2020, Perdue bought around $65,000 of stock in DuPont, a company that makes personal protective equipment, on the same day as a private Senate briefing on the spread of COVID-19.[40][41] Over the next few months, Perdue bought and sold around $5.8 million and $5.6 million worth of stocks, respectively, a significant increase from his previous portfolio activity. In May 2020, after his portfolio was scrutinized, Perdue announced that his financial advisors would no longer buy and sell individual stocks.[42] Kelly Loeffler, Georgia's other senator, also invested in companies after the COVID-19 briefing.

Perdue has praised Trump's response to the pandemic.[43] Asked why he criticized Obama for his response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 but praised Trump's response to the coronavirus in 2020, Perdue said, "It's a totally different situation."[43] In September 2020, after the release of recordings from February in which Trump said he intentionally downplayed the severity of the coronavirus, Perdue said Trump was "trying to manage the psyche of the country" and to "look at what he did."[44]

2020 U.S. Senate campaign

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in Georgia

Perdue is running for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2020.[45] During the campaign, he ran an ad in which the nose of his opponent, Jon Ossoff, was enlarged; the use of an anti-Semitic trope was criticized as a dog whistle reference to Ossoff's Jewish heritage.[46][47][48] The ad also featured Ossoff's image next to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both of whom are Jewish, and said Democrats are trying to "buy Georgia," with a link to raise funds for Perdue's campaign.[46][47][48] His campaign pulled the ad after receiving criticism,[48] saying it was an "inadvertent error" and that his design firm had applied a filter that distorted the image.[46][47]

In October 2020, Perdue made international news[49][50][51] by mocking Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris by repeatedly mispronouncing her name, which is of South Asian origin. In the campaign appearance, Perdue called Harris "Kah-mah-la or Kah-ma-la or Kamamboamamla", which drew scattered laughter from the crowd. Commentators noted that Perdue, who has served with Harris in the Senate since 2017, undoubtedly knows how to pronounce her name, and some said he deliberately pretended otherwise to appeal to a largely white audience.[52][53][54] A spokesman for Perdue responded to the criticism, "Senator Perdue simply mispronounced Senator Harris's name, and he didn't mean anything by it."[55][56][57][58]

During an October 28 debate, Ossoff criticized Perdue for "downplaying the threat of the coronavirus pandemic" while simultaneously "buying stocks in health care companies and selling shares in travel-related industries". The Hill noted that video of the exchange was viewed nearly 10 million times in the following day.[59] Perdue skipped the final debate against Ossoff.[60][61]

No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the November 3 election, so there will be a January 2021 runoff between Perdue and Ossoff. After failing to get more than 50% of the vote in the November election, Perdue claimed without evidence that there had been "failures" in the election, and called for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's resignation.[62] Raffensperger is a Republican whom Perdue campaigned for in the 2018 Georgia Secretary of State race; during that campaign, Perdue claimed without evidence that the Democratic candidate, Michelle Nunn, was trying to "steal this race." Nunn had also been Perdue's opponent in 2014.[63]

Political positions

Environment and climate change

Perdue rejects that there is a scientific consensus on climate change.[64] He has criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and supported President Donald Trump’s appointment of Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator, saying in 2017, "Outside of eliminating the EPA altogether, Scott Pruitt is the next best thing."[65] Perdue was one of 22 Republican senators to sign a letter to Trump urging him to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.[66][67] According to the Center for Responsive Politics, he received over $180,000 from oil, gas and coal interests between 2012 and 2017.[67]

Donald Trump

Perdue (right) with Republican Senator Tom Cotton and President Donald Trump.

Perdue is a close ally of President Donald Trump.[68][69] Some of Perdue's only public criticism of Trump centered on the issue of tariffs. Perdue was initially reluctant to support Trump's proposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, but came to support them.[68][70]

On January 11, 2018, Perdue attended a meeting at the White House where, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversation, Trump called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries "shithole nations" and said the United States should not take in immigrants from these countries.[71] Perdue said he did not recall Trump making those statements.[72][73][74] Three days later, on ABC's This Week, Perdue said that Trump did not use such language during the meeting.[75]

Economy

Perdue at the 2016 Republican National Convention

In December 2017, Perdue voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He voted for the 2017 budget, which could add as much as $1.5 trillion to deficits over ten years, because he said the tax cuts could lead to more revenue due to the economic growth they would encourage.[76]

Perdue supports a constitutional balanced budget amendment.[77]

In September 2018, Perdue was one of six Republican senators (along with Jeff Flake, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ben Sasse, and Pat Toomey), as well as Bernie Sanders, who voted against a $854 billion spending bill for the Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor and Education departments, meant to avoid a government shutdown.[78]

Foreign policy

In March 2017, Perdue co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, a bill that would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[79][80]

In April 2018, Perdue signed a letter asking the Trump administration to respond to revelations that North Korea was supplying some components of chemical weapons in Syria.[81]

In November 2019, at the White House’s request, Perdue blocked a vote on recognizing the Armenian Genocide.[82]

In January 2020, Perdue expressed support for the US military's assassination of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani by drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport.[83][84]

Health care

Perdue opposes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has voted to repeal it.[85][86] While running for reelection in 2020, he claimed his proposed health care policy was that "health insurance should always cover preexisting conditions. For anyone. Period." PolitiFact rated this claim "false", noting that Perdue supported policies that would allow insurers not to cover all preexisting conditions.[87][88]

Immigration

In 2017, Perdue and Tom Cotton co-sponsored the RAISE Act, an immigration reductionist proposal that would cut legal immigration to the United States by 50% over 10 years, restrict the family reunification part of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, eliminate the diversity visa lottery, and create a points-based immigration system that would favor skilled immigrants.[89]

In June 2019, Perdue supported Trump's decision to place tariffs on Mexico unless illegal immigration from Mexico stopped. Perdue said, "He has to use a hammer. We're being invaded right now."[90]

Education

Perdue opposes the Common Core plan, which Georgia Republican leaders adopted in 2010, and then turned against. Perdue said he supported "the original intent" of Common Core but took issue with "the details" and "how it's going to be administered," saying "Common Core has become overreaching and should be abandoned."[91]

Same-sex marriage

Perdue opposes same-sex marriage.[92] After the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional in 2015, he co-sponsored legislation to allow federal contractors and employees to oppose same-sex marriage on the grounds of moral or religious convictions.[92][93]

Electoral history

2014 Senate race

U.S. Senate Republican Primary election in Georgia, 2014[94]
Candidate Votes %
David Perdue 185,466 30.64%
Jack Kingston 156,157 25.80%
Karen Handel 132,944 21.96%
Phil Gingrey 60,735 10.03%
Paul Broun 58,297 9.63%
Derrick Grayson 6,045 1.00%
Arthur "Art" Gardner 5,711 0.94%
U.S. Senate Republican Primary Runoff election in Georgia, 2014[95]
Candidate Votes %
David Perdue 245,951 50.88%
Jack Kingston 237,448 49.12%
U.S. Senate election in Georgia, 2014[96]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican David Perdue 1,358,088 52.89%
Democratic Michelle Nunn 1,160,811 45.21%
Libertarian Amanda Swafford 48,862 1.90%
Write-in Anantha Reddy Muscu 21 0.00%
Write-in Mary Schroder 14 0.00%
Write-in Brian Russell Brown 9 0.00%

2020 Senate race

U.S. Senate Republican Primary election in Georgia, 2020
Candidate Votes %
David Perdue 992,555 100%

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2003–2007 		Succeeded by
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(Class 2)
2014, 2020 		Most recent
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Saxby Chambliss
 U.S. senator (Class 2) from Georgia
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