Georgia Sen. David Perdue is defending Donald Trump’s phone call with the state’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he pressured the SoS to “find” votes to overturn Biden’s victory in the state.
“I didn’t hear anything in that tape that the president hasn’t already said for weeks now since the November election calling for some sort of investigation, some sort of resolution to the improprieties and the irregularities that we now see happened in November here in Georgia,” Perdue said on Fox News.
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“What he is saying, a lot of people in Georgia and 75 million Americans, I think, align with him right now that something untoward happened here in Georgia and we have not gotten to the bottom of it,” he added.
[LISTEN: Full audio of Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.]
The real problem here as far as Perdue is concerned is that a member of the Republican Party would tape a sitting president and then the contents were leaked to the media.
Perdue said that is what’s “disgusting” about all of this. Not the fact that the President of the United States was trying to disenfranchise millions of voters in his own state.
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy similarly downplayed the call on Monday, telling Fox News.
“The president has always been concerned about the integrity of the election and the president believes there are things that happened in Georgia and he wants to see the accountability for it,” McCarthy said.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger is one of the very few elected Republicans on Capitol Hill to criticize Trump’s actions on the call. He called it “absolutely appalling” adding that no Republican with a “clean conscience” could vote to object to election results after hearing the call.
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In the call Trump demanded that Raffensperger “find” more than 11,000 votes to overturn the results of the election in the state and warned him that he was taking a big risk if he does not comply with his wishes.
Trump will travel to the state on Monday to campaign for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of the crucial Senate run off on Tuesday. President-elect Joe Biden will also be in the state as well to campaign for Democrats Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
