Unlikely Candidate Has Big Hopes For Georgia Senate Seat

Rep. Paul Broun sat calmly and cooly at a 90-minute Senate forum Tuesday, giving no indication that his campaign was hurting far more than it is.

He spoke firmly on prohibiting amnesty in immigration reform, support of the Second Amendment and his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in an effort to sway voters into granting him a hotly contested Senate seat.

The 68-year-old is far behind former Dollar General CEO David Perdue and Rep. Jack Kingston in polling and the most important ingredient of all: money. Yet he maintained that he could win both the runoff and general election.

“They don’t want me there, because I want to take the power away from them,” said Broun of his fellow conservative candidates who have criticized his campaign. “I want to send the power back to ‘we the people.’ Establishment Republicans like a big government.”

Broun told At The Races that he was confident that he could pull through and win what has been described as an unpredictable election. After the forum, which the two highest-ranked candidates did not attend, however, he asked his constituency for support to keep the campaign alive.

“I’m going to need your help talking to people … because I don’t have the money that Kingston and Perdue have,” Broun said to a supporter. “We need to develop an army of ‘we the people’ to make sure that people come to the polls.”