Among several false allegations about electoral fraud, President Donald Trump asked Georgia’s governor Brian Kemp to “resign” in a tweet on Wednesday morning.
“He is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we beat Georgia, BIG!”, Trump said falsely in his tweet criticizing the Republican governor.
None of the senators commented on Trump’s request for Kemp’s resignation, the latest in a series of incendiary comments the president made about the two senators – who bet on his election by tying himself to Trump – were questioned. The issue is the latest example of the president’s unpredictable nature disrupting the race in Georgia, an elected state president, Joe Biden, elected in the November election.
Pressed by Fox News on Tuesday, Loeffler would just say “I am proud to support our men and women in the army”, calling the president “a great champion of our military”.
Both Loeffler and Perdue tried to avoid actively challenging the president’s claims, with Loeffler refusing to comment on whether she supported Trump’s claims of a rigged election during a debate earlier this month, rather than telling moderators, when pressed, “it is very clear that there were issues in this election. “For his part. Perdue also refused to condemn the president because of unfounded conspiracy theories, telling campaigners in Forsyth, Georgia, that if Democrats win January’s runoff contests and “if they get the White House, the vice president is the decision maker “. in any Senate stalemate.
The tightrope that the two senators are being forced to walk on was also on display on Tuesday, when they both announced that they would support Trump’s request for $ 2,000 in direct relief checks from Covid, but did not actually call for a vote. a similar bill that passed the House, even when Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blocked an effort to quickly approve the measure by Senate Democrats and signaled his intention to link remission to the “poison pill” proposals that they repealed Section 230 and formed an electoral fraud task force.
Trump’s call for $ 2,000 in relief from Covid took Republicans by surprise last week when, after a $ 900 billion relief package from Covid with $ 600 in direct checks approved by the Senate and the House, the president announced in a video posted online that it would not support the bill aimed at its signature table. Ultimately, Trump signed the bill while on vacation in Florida on Sunday after an intense lobbying campaign by Perdue, but kept his check order for $ 2,000.
Asked on Tuesday, Loeffler told CNN, “I said I supported (increased Covid relief), I support. Look, we have to provide relief to Americans,” but offered no information on whether she would return to Washington to vote. on the issue. Perdue ignored several requests for comment on whether he would call McConnell to bring a vote to the Senate floor during the statewide campaign on Tuesday.