“On January 6, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair trial they deserve and to support the objection to the Electoral College certification process,” Loeffler said in a statement on her official Twitter account.
Loeffler will launch an effort, apart from a dozen of her fellow Republican senators, who have already said they will challenge Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during the certification vote. At least 140 House Republicans will also object to the certification.
Just minutes before Loeffler’s tweet, Georgia’s fellow Republican Sen. David Perdue tweeted a clip of his interview on Fox News on Sunday in which he said he was urging his colleagues to object.
“I urge my colleagues to object. This is something the American people are demanding at the moment,” he said. “There are major irregularities in Georgia. In my opinion, they need to be investigated, and they need to be rectified.”
Both Loeffler and Perdue are in the midst of tough election races in Georgia, where they will face off against their respective Democratic opponents on Tuesday. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, will take on the fight – a day before the certification.
Raffensperger, a Republican, oversaw three different versions of the November vote in the state and conducted several other reviews of the process. He recently commissioned the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to conduct an audit of the signature system in Cobb County, which determined that the system was 99.9% accurate and revealed no evidence of fraud.
Perdue not only said he would encourage his colleagues to object to Trump’s loss, but also that he himself should win in November, despite not reaching the 50% threshold to avoid a run-off. not.
Until now, Loeffler and Perdue have evaded the question of whether they would accept the result of the presidential election. Both are staunch supporters of Trump and neither has recognized Biden as the president-elect.
Before she came out with her statement, Loeffler left open the possibility that she could object to the outcome of the election college. On December 20, CNN asked Loeffler what her plans for the vote were this week and she said: ‘Everything is on the table now. This president fought for us, we fight for him. We must have free and fair elections. But we must also make sure that Georgians get out and vote on 5 January. ‘