Well, Steph, good evening, what you saw there is a man who`s desperate, despite having Donald Trump`s support, he is down in the polls. And that`s why he`s willing to lie blatantly on television like that, just to try to win over those Trump supporters who still are not supporting him.
Curbelo discusses Perdue's strategy of lying to gain support from Trump supporters.
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