David Perdue, total slime and Republican for Senate In 2002's Georgia Senate race, Saxby Chambliss defeated then-Sen. Max Cleland after running a notorious ad linking him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. In 2014's Georgia Senate race, David Perdue is taking a page out of Chambliss's playbook. Perdue is running ads accusing Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn of having funded organizations linked to terrorists during her time running George H.W.