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Rivian’s Soros Connection Becomes Issue in Georgia Governor Race
Perdue says Kemp ‘selling us out’ to the billionaire, a target of conspiracy theories
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A $5 billion Rivian Automotive Inc. electric-vehicle plant planned for middle Georgia is now a pawn in the state’s bitter Republican gubernatorial primary.
Former U.S. Senator David Perdue, who is challenging incumbent Governor Brian Kemp with the backing of Donald Trump, is holding a Tuesday rally in Rutledge to protest the plant and investor George Soros, who is one of its backers. The attack puts Kemp’s biggest economic development coup squarely in the middle of the U.S. culture wars.