David Perdue, former United States Senator and an ally of former President Trump, announced on Monday that he will be running for Governor in the 2022 Georgia polls. He will be going against incumbent Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, and Stacy Abrams, a likely winner of Democrat primaries.

The 71-year-old former lawmaker used a two-way strategy to strengthen his claim. He said he is running to stop Abrams from taking the gubernatorial office further adding that Kemp is likely to lose to the Democrat as some Trump supporters were not in support of him.

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Kemp is promising an all-out brawl as he tries to win a second term, with Kemp spokesperson Cody Hall saying Perdue is running only to “soothe his own bruised ego” over losing his Senate seat, according to reports from Associated Press.

Hall added, “The man who lost Republicans the United States Senate and brought the last year of skyrocketing inflation, open borders, runaway government spending, and woke cancel culture upon the American people now wants to lose the Georgia governor’s office to the national face of the radical left movement.”

Perdue, who has previously been endorsed by Trump for the Governor’s office in Georgia, said that his campaign would be based on issues like enhancing public safety, curbing state income tax and empowering parents’ ability to control what is taught in public schools.

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But he hit most strongly on hard feelings over Trump’s electoral loss, as well as January Senate losses by Perdue to Democrat Jon Ossoff and by Republican Kelly Loeffler to Democrat Raphael Warnock.

According to reports from Associated Press, Perdue was supporting Kemp as recently as June, introducing him at the state Republican Party convention. Kemp said Thursday that he could not control whether Perdue would be “a man of his word.”