Democrats ended up looking foolish after mocking Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue for what turned out to be a gesture of goodwill toward a diabetic girl.
On Friday, American Bridge, a Democratic PAC, posted video from a tracker at a Perdue rally purporting to show the Senate nominee “signing a young woman’s torso,” according to BuzzFeed, who first reported on the video. The video, which has since been removed, showed Perdue signing what appeared to be the girl’s hip; before signing he joked “no pictures on this” and attendees held up campaign signs to block the camera from capturing the scene.
Democratic National Committee press secretary Michael Czin tweeted out a link of the video, calling it “super awkward.”
But a Perdue spokeswoman later explained that the candidate was actually signing the girl’s insulin pump to raise awareness for juvenile diabetes, as revealed by video taken from a different angle.
“This was a Georgia family who shared their personal story of their struggle with Obamacare and the rising health care costs associated with their daughter’s treatment which is not being covered by their insurance,” the spokeswoman said.
The girl’s family called the misleading description of the video “extremely disrespectful to our family and our young daughter’s privacy.”
Perdue was in Jonesboro, Ga., on the first day of a ten-day bus tour in the final two weeks of the campaign against Democrat Michelle Nunn.
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