--- title: Businessman David Perdue Wins Georgia GOP Senate Primary description: David Perdue, a businessman and nephew of ex-Governor Sonny Perdue, will face off with Michelle Nunn, the daughter of ex-Senator Sam Nunn canonical: https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/ author: Jay Newton-Small article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T07:42:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:17:25.185Z article:section: Politics og:title: Businessman David Perdue Wins Georgia GOP Senate Primary og:description: David Perdue, a businessman and nephew of ex-Governor Sonny Perdue, will face off with Michelle Nunn, the daughter of ex-Senator Sam Nunn og:url: https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6cad9dcb332a648/69869cbf169ab02fbf27a71d/ap962408305932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3396 og:image:height: 1910 og:image:alt: David Perdue og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Businessman David Perdue Wins Georgia GOP Senate Primary twitter:description: David Perdue, a businessman and nephew of ex-Governor Sonny Perdue, will face off with Michelle Nunn, the daughter of ex-Senator Sam Nunn twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6cad9dcb332a648/69869cbf169ab02fbf27a71d/ap962408305932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Businessman David Perdue Wins the GOP Senate Primary in Georgia > Sponsored content. 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For the first time in many a pecan season, the choice was less about the quality of the GOP candidates than about who was best to beat the Democratic candidate, Michelle Nunn. Nunn, the daughter of former Senator Sam Nunn, is the most formidable Democratic candidate to crop up statewide in Georgia in years. She will face off with David Perdue, a businessman and cousin of former Governor Sonny Perdue, who won the primary runoff with less than 51% of the vote against Representative Jack Kingston. (Ideologically speaking, both Kingston and Perdue are very similar and capable of giving Nunn a tough race.) Nunn enters the general elections with a money and momentum advantage over Perdue, who topped a May primary of seven candidates but faced a runoff with the other top vote getter, Kingston, after failing to secure more than 50% of the vote. Nunn had at least $3.7 million on hand at the end of the last quarter in April and her campaign recently announced she raised another $3.5 million in the second quarter, though they’ve yet to disclose how much cash on hand remains. Perdue, a millionaire who has already given his primary campaign $1.25 million in personal funds, had $784,000 cash on hand as of July 2, but his primary with Kingston was bruising and required a lot of paid media in the final weeks. Neither Nunn, the former CEO of Points of Light — a national volunteer program run with the Bush Family Foundation — nor Perdue, the former CEO of Dollar General, have ever been elected to public office before. They are running to fill the seat of retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Republican. Georgia is one of the Democrats’ top two pick of seats in the Senate and a stopgap measure as they stand of the edge of losing the Senate majority. Kingston’s defeat was a defeat for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which poured $2.3 million into the race on his behalf, effectively making Perdue the CEO candidate without business backing. Kingston had a long record of probusiness votes, while Perdue is more of a blank slate. “There is a clear contrast in this race between Michelle Nunn, a leader who has spent the last 25 years leading volunteer organizations and lifting communities up, and David Perdue, someone who has spent his career enriching himself while often times tearing companies and communities apart,” said Democratic Party of Georgia chair DuBose Porter. “Georgians want leaders who will fix the mess in Washington, not someone who puts personal profit ahead of regular people.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/"},"headline":"Businessman David Perdue Wins the GOP Senate Primary in Georgia","datePublished":"2014-07-23T07:42:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:17:25.185Z","description":"The Republican businessman will take on Michelle Nunn, daughter of former Senator Sam Nunn, at the polls in November","url":"https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/","keywords":["republicans","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6cad9dcb332a648/69869cbf169ab02fbf27a71d/ap962408305932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jay Newton-Small","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6cad9dcb332a648/69869cbf169ab02fbf27a71d/ap962408305932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"David Perdue","caption":"David Perdue","creditText":"John Bazemore—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republicans/","name":"republicans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3021270/senate-primary-georgia-gop-david-perdue-michelle-nunn-jack-kingston/","name":"Businessman David Perdue Wins the GOP Senate Primary in Georgia"}}]}] ```