Kemp and “his puppet” Duncan, wrote Trump, “are a disgrace to the great people of Georgia!” He said Raffensperger, with whom he spoke on Saturday about the alleged electoral fraud in Fulton County, “has no idea!”
Trump also retweeted a post by Amy Kremer, co-founder of Women for Trump PAC, who asked why Perdue and Loeffler did not join about a quarter of Senate Republicans in preparation to challenge the Biden Electoral College victory on Wednesday , when Congress will meet to certify the vote.
Kemp nominated Loeffler for the Senate in December 2019, choosing the businesswoman over Deputy Doug Collins (R-Ga.), A Trump ally who unsuccessfully challenged Loeffler in November to complete the remainder of Johnny Isakson’s term. No candidate won more than 50% of the vote in this contest or Perdue against Ossoff, a Democrat, for a six-year term.
Loeffler is officially running against Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, but his message on Sunday focused on Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader who will become the majority leader if Warnock and Ossoff win Tuesday’s races. -market.
“If we lose this election, we could lose the country’s future because we know that Chuck Schumer wants to abolish the obstruction, get rid of the Electoral College, become a DC state, raise our taxes and the list goes on,” Loeffler told the guest presenter Bret Baier on Fox News Sunday. “This is out of step with Georgia.”
In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union”, Ossoff said he was not concerned that Trump’s rally on Monday would motivate his Republican Party base to appear on Tuesday.
“What I can’t understand,” said Ossoff, moving quickly to the Senate leadership, “is that Mitch McConnell is currently snubbing and disrespecting President Trump, overturning his NDAA veto and refusing to move US stimulus checks. $ 2,000 that President Trump and President-elect Biden and the support of the American people, why President Trump wants to work so hard to try to save the majority of Mitch McConnell when McConnell is treating Trump as an irrelevant lame president. ”
Perdue is quarantined with his wife after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19. But he told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures program that he expected “a big win.”
“We know that Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will be nothing more than a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and this radical socialist agenda,” he said. “The only thing they really care about is giving Chuck Schumer two more votes in the United States Senate. This will give you full control and change the face of America. ”
Ossoff said he believed that “popular momentum” and “unprecedented energy of movement” would lead Democrats to victory.
“Democratic standard bearers are the young Jewish son of an immigrant under the guidance of John Lewis and a black pastor who detains Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church, ”he said. “It seems that in Georgia we are on the verge of a historic victory that will usher in a new era in American history, after four years of gross incompetence, racism, hatred and intolerance.”
Many of Sunday’s interviews, however, focused on how Republicans will vote on Wednesday to certify the results of the Electoral College, whether there is any evidence of electoral fraud and whether candidates will accept the results of Georgia’s runoff – all issues raised by the president and his allies.
Loeffler insisted that he was “seriously considering” how he will vote on Wednesday, but that his priority now is to win on Tuesday. Perdue said he would vote against certification, but could not participate in that effort because his race would not be certified until at least a week after the race was over.
Loeffler also repeatedly dodged a question about how she would have voted if she had been present at last week’s vote, overturning Trump’s veto of an annual defense policy bill. “I don’t know,” she said at one point.
Stacey Abrams, the former minority leader in the Georgia House who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, predicted that the volume of votes cast would mean that the dispute will not be called for at least a few days. But she hoped the Democrats would be able to pull off victories in a state where Biden won by less than 12,000 votes.
“This will be a very difficult battle,” she acknowledged on CNN, “but it is absolutely within the realm of possibility – in fact, the realm of probability – that Democrats can win.”