Senator David Perdue, one of two Republicans in Georgia fighting to keep their seats in a tough by-election, said Sunday that he does not believe Trump’s leaked phone call with the state’s top election official will have any bearing on Tuesday’s election. .
The Washington Post gets the voice of a phone call between Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. At one point during the conversation, Trump apparently said, “All I want to do is do this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.”
According to Georgia-certified election results, Joe Biden won the state by 11,779 votes. Trump said Biden only won because of fraud and intervened on government officials who made no major changes. The ballots were counted three times, including a mandatory hand count and a narration requested by Trump.
Trump’s critics have taken the phone call as proof that the president is pushing an election official to intervene, while Trump supporters said the sound was leaked, showing the contempt the Secretary of State in Georgia has for the president.
Perdue, who was a guest on ‘The Next Revolution’, said he was ‘shocked’ because a member of the Republican Party would paste a sitting president and leak it to the media.
“It’s disgusting to me,” he said. “But what the president said is exactly what he said in the last few months.”
Perdue said Trump was in line with his allegations that there were irregularities in the polls, saying Trump only “wants answers”.
Perdue, who faces Democrat Jon Ossoff in the run-off election, said earlier Sunday that he supports Republican senators who have announced they will contest the election votes of several states during a joint congressional session later this week.
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Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the other Republican in the state facing Democratic Reverend Raphael Warnock, said she did not decide to work with Republican colleagues to challenge the legitimacy of Biden’s victory over Trump when Congress met Wednesday to discuss Biden’s to confirm vote victory of 306-232. in the Electoral College.
Both candidates were backed by Trump.
Perdue pointed out that he had already appealed to Raffensperger to resign. He said the Secretary of State and the state legislature had not answered Trump’s questions about voter fraud in the state.
Steve Hilton, the presenter of the program, pointed out that Trump will campaign in Georgia on Monday and Perdue said he welcomes the support.
“He’s going to call his believers here,” Perdue said. He said Trump would remind voters in Georgia that the future of the country is in their hands.
“The people of Georgia will determine the future direction of the country. He is going to remind them of that,” he said.
Biden will also campaign in Georgia on Monday, and Vice President Kamala Harris bumped into Garden City, Georgia on Sunday and slammed Trump for the call. ‘President of the United States. ‘
Fox News’ Brooke Singman and the Associated Press Contributed to This Report