Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., provides an update on the Georgia recount and Senate runoffs on ‘Fox & Friends’
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Process process process and following the law as written
following the law as written
E Georgia, state officials
say they want to instill
confidence in the election, as
nearly five million ballots are
currently being recounted in the
peach state.
Our next guest was chosen to
lead president trumps recount
team in Georgia.
Joining us now is Congressman
Doug Collins,
congressman good morning to
you
good Morning, Steve. How are
you
Steve, Iim doing fine?
Thank you very much.
Have you got your hands full?
You have got to complete the
hand recount by midnight on
Wednesday.
Where are we
well? We are in the middle of
the count right now,
thats whats, going on all over
the state by many counties
counting through the weekend. We
had observers there watching
right now getting that done.
This is a fight for every legal
vote,
its also a fight to make sure
that illegal votes, dont count.
This is the important part- is
restoring that confidence.
It had to be done this way
and we have also been continuing
to get issues of the people
coming through to make sure that
their vote was counted.
So we are still wanting to hear
from people if they had issues
or hearing from the counts as
well
Steve. So you are suggesting if
somebody on election day had a
problem to give you a call.
Is that what you are looking
for
yeah
and we have had a lot of those
and also folks who you know
they are concerned that they had
with transparency not being
allowed to watch
these?
We have been over the weekend.
This is not over.
A lot of people need to realize
the lawsuits that have been
filed outside the campaign, but
also the count itself needs to
continue
real issues with signature,
verification
with what happened in the
consent decree
thats. What has to be looked at
and a lot of consent, decree
gutted the way we do signature
verification here in Georgia,
Steve. I have read some of the
local reporting down in Georgia
congressman.
It sounds like of the problems
they have picked up. You know
in certain localities. It might
change one two, three, four five votes
thats it
so far its not a big number,
well im waiting to see
those numbers as they come back
in again things are. These
are actually now a chance with
paper ballots that we are
actually have observers, be able
to challenge. Was there an
overvote and changes here
were waiting on that right now
again, the question is: do we
want one hundred percent ache accuracy o?
Ninety eight point: five people need to be sure
that their ballot actually
counts.
Steve absolutely
talk about the twin Senate,
runoffs scheduled for the first
week of January,
famously I think it it was. Last
week Andrew Yang said, im going
to go down to Georgia and help
people out
Tom Freidman said on CNN. That
quote, everybody should move to
Georgia in the next month or two
and register to vote and vote
for these two democratic
senators.
Some have suggested he was
kidding, but nonetheless you
cant do that.
In fact, what theyre
encouraging people to do is
commit a felony.
Have people come to Georgia and
commit a felony guess what the
attorney general in state of
Georgia is going to happily
oblige them.
They cant come in here to
simply to vote without moving to
Georgia.
The intents is to move
permanently to Georgia and
thats the way it is going to
be
if they come to do that, they
will meet the law in Georgia and
I dont think they will like it
very much
Steve. I read down there that
the Democrats are mobilizing
people to request mail in
Bloomberg, business reports for
the special election as well. A number of people on the
a number of people on the
political left have done that. We
wanted to make sure every voter
turns out.
We know Perdue and Loeffler are
making sure all our voters turn
back out even in the holiday
season,
if they need to use absentee
ballot, get it and turned in
early, but also participate in
this process.
We cant let this election go
too much consequences for our
nation and Georgia for
Republicans to sit at home on.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-16.