Businessman David Perdue (R) and former charity executive Michelle Nunn (D) are on the air with new dueling ads focused on Perdue’s business career.
{mosads}Nunn’s ad runs through recent news coverage of Perdue’s 2005 comments that he spent “most of my career” focused on outsourcing, and his follow-up comment last week that he’s “proud” of that work.
“David Perdue — he’s not for you,” the ad concludes.
Perdue fires back with direct-to-camera response tying her to President Obama.
“I helped create and save thousands of American jobs, regardless of what Michelle Nunn says,” he says in the spot. “Job losses come from bad policies in Washington, the policies of President Obama and Michelle Nunn.”
Recent public polling has found a margin-of-error contest, with Perdue holding a slight lead, and Democrats are feeling increasingly bullish about their chances in the red state. If no candidate wins 50 percent in November, the two will face off in a January runoff.
The ads aren’t the only ones hitting the airwaves — the conservative Ending Spending Action Fund says “A vote for Nunn is a vote for Obama” after highlighting the president’s recent comments that his “policies are on the ballot” in a new spot of its own.