{"id":92462,"date":"2020-10-19T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/perdue-distances-itself-from-senator-who-mocked-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:46:16","slug":"perdue-distances-itself-from-senator-who-mocked-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/perdue-distances-itself-from-senator-who-mocked-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"#Perdue distances itself from senator who mocked Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Perdue distances itself from senator who mocked Kamala Harris<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Election-2020-Senate-Georgia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Perdue Chicken\u2019s feathers have been ruffled by Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue, whose mockery of Sen. Kamala Harris\u2019 name has left many assuming that he is affiliated with the company.<\/p>\n<p>During a campaign rally for President Trump in Georgia on Friday, Perdue mangled the vice-presidential candidate\u2019s name as \u201cKamala-mala-mala,\u201d prompting his opponent Jon Ossoff to condemn the senator for his \u201crace-baiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perdue\u2019s staff has insisted that his comments were unintentional, but the backlash grew and eventually a hashtag sprouted calling for Americans to boycott the chicken giant, believing it was connected to the senator, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/10\/18\/georgia-sen-david-perdue-chicken-boycott-not-affiliated-kamala-harri\/3703586001\/\">USA Today reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After being roasted in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, Perdue Chicken responded by saying that the lawmaker has no ties to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Perdue has no affiliation with our Perdue brand,\u201d the company said in multiple tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Twitterati who took notice was CNN analyst Bakari Sellers, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/1317484064325177344\">who wrote<\/a>: \u201cWhen the chickens start distancing themselves from you\u2026.#FreeEliza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eliza was the person who signed many of the company\u2019s tweets, prompting many social media users to begin circulating \u201cPoor Eliza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Perdue is the cousin of Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, he has no relation to the Perdues, who started the national chicken company in 1920, USA Today reported.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/19\/perdue-chicken-distances-itself-from-senator-who-mocked-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Perdue distances itself from senator who mocked Kamala Harris&#8221; Perdue Chicken\u2019s feathers have been ruffled by Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue, whose mockery of Sen. Kamala Harris\u2019 name has left many assuming that he is affiliated with the company. During a campaign rally for President Trump in Georgia on Friday, Perdue mangled the vice-presidential candidate\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Election-2020-Senate-Georgia.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[76303,54282,70289],"class_list":["post-92462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-19-20","tag-kamala-harris","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}