Republican David Perdue, who lost his Georgia Senate seat last year, has now claimed that the election was “stolen” from him.
Former President Donald Trump, who has been the most notable source of similarly false election fraud claims after losing the White House in 2020, will rally with Mr Perdue on Saturday in support of his attempt to unseat the Republican Governor of the state, Brian Kemp.
Mr Trump began attacking Mr Kemp after he wasn’t, in Mr Trump’s view, supportive enough of his efforts to overturn the results in Georgia, a state that President Joe Biden won, the first Democrat to do so since President Bill Clinton in 1992.
“Look, the energy level is still up in Georgia,” Mr Perdue said on Voice of Rural America. “Most people in Georgia know that something untoward happened in November 2020. In fact, I’ll just say it ... in my election, in the President’s election – they were stolen.”
“The evidence is compelling now, not the hyperbole that you saw come out right out to the election by people from out of the state. But just the court case that we saw last year,” he added.
“The court ruled in that case against Fulton County that the evidence was compelling and the judge ruled to unseal the ballots in Fulton County,” Mr Perdue said.
“He later dismissed that case ... because he said that voters ... do not have legal standing when it comes to a fraud civil case. I have refiled that suit now and I want to find out if a candidate has legal standing,” he added.
“And if...
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