Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., discusses what is at stake if Democrats win control of the Senate.
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Ainsley, that is very important.
These two races
thank you. Jonathan
lets bring in g dot, Op Senator
David Perdue Good Morning to
you
good morning, Guys
Ainsley, Stacey Abrams was on
another network over the weekend
and talking about a number of
people that are voting,
she believes its a sign because
there are eighty five thousand applications
from voters who did not vote in
the general election, its a big number,
its a big number,
listen to what she said.
Two million absentee ballots have
been requested thus far and put
them into context. One point three million
were requested for all of the
general election
of that one point: two million eighty five thousand of
those applications are from
voters who did not vote in the
general elections and
disproportionately between the
ages of eighteen and twenty nine and people of
color
that signals enthusiasm for Jon,
Ossoff and Raphael Warnock and
signals that we understand that
we may need to make a plan to
vote and deliver this election.
Ainsley senator whats your
reaction.
They are behind where they
were in the general election
Ainsley.
We beat them by two points.
Fifty two point: five percent of Georgians rejected
ossoff in my race and Warnock.
Today is the first day of early
voting. We are encouraging
everybody on our side to get out
early
dont, wait until January fifth,
get out before Christmas,
Brian Senator right now we
understand. According to
Trafalgar, has you trailing?
You had eighty thousand vote win, but you
didnt get fifty percent.
Do you believe that Ossoff has
gotten to the point where he is
now beating you by a point
im a outsider to this
particular process?
Back in fourteen these same, had he
down eight to ten point
won by eight? Then
they had us down by five and we won
by two. We just came up a you. Few
thousand votes short of this, fifty percent
rule we have in Georgia.
I dont pay allot of attention.
The best poll we have had is the
election.
Again I go back to that.
They didnt get they couldnt
get to forty eight percent. On the democratic
side
we get our vote out in Georgia.
We will be just fine.
We have to remind everybody, we
are doing everything we can to
plug the holes that we saw
emerge in the November election
and, let me remind the voters,
most Republicans are voting in
person.
There is a reason why the
Democrats are trying to go for
more absentee ballots.
If you vote in person, you have
to have a photo id
in absentee ballots. You dont,
we know some of the things that
were done in November and trying
to make sure they dont happen
in January,
Steve right.
We have heard from the president
over the last couple of weeks.
He says. Obviously he thinks that,
even though the numbers right
now say that Joe Biden won
Georgia, the President says he
won Georgia. Given disparities
and information, he has talked a
lot about.
He says the election was rigged
them.
I talked to some people down in
Georgia and they said well, the
president says the November
election was rigged. Why should I
vote in this new election if
its rigged too
thats a great question
thats? Why we are doing
everything we can with the State
Election Board,
the States office and attorney generals Office and the Courts
Generals Office and the courts
to make sure that
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Ainsley may be frozen
Steve? I was reading in the Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal,
Patrick Bell, who is the Forsythe?
He worries about the harvesting
absentee ballots and people
moving out of the state retained
their
and people moving to vote in
Georgia. Specifically
Senator, are you worried, as
Patrick Bell is in Forsythe
County, that people have moved to
Georgia just to vote?
Of course we are.
I mean this is what Yang and
Freidman said
some of these leading Democrats
come on down to Georgia and take
advantage of this law.
We are trying in the court to
make sure resegregated all the
people who registered after the
November election Amend have
gotten an absentee ballot,
provisional ballot to make sure
I come back to say this to the
viewers
in Georgia. If you are really
concerned about the outcome,
we are the last line of defense
against this radical leftist
agenda.
We dont have to listen to us.
You just have to read what the
Democrats have put in their
national platform
and I believe Georgians are
going to stand up to that. We are
not going to let the road to
socialism run through the state
of Georgia,
and if we win Georgia,
we absolutely save America
Ainsley. Do you trust whats
going to happen in January?
I know that the Fox NEWS poll
shows that a lot of republicans
they dont. They do think that
the president, the election was
stolen.
Seventy seven percent of his supporters told Fox
news. They believe he was robbed.
Sixty eight percent of Republicans felt the same
way and even ten percent of the
Democrats.
What are you doing in the state
of Georgia to ensure the people
who are going out to vote for
you that their voices will be
heard and nothing nefarious will
happen?
We are asking to change
several things.
One is how the signatures are
verified.
There were a lot of changes
going into the twenty the
November two thousand and twenty election
from past practices in Georgia
when we didnt have this sort of
problem,
and so we want to go back to the
way we used to do it on
signature. Verification is very
important.
The second are these, as you
mentioned, votes coming from out
of state and make sure the
ballots themselves before before
they were separate from the
envelopes
Ainsley. You have less than a
month to make these changes and
Christmas is around the corner.
People are going to be spending
time with their family.
How are you going to change this
before the runoff
working the courts right now,
negotiating with the election
board,
but the main thing we are doing
right now,
early voting starts today. Look
all these intransis is occurred
in November and we still won. We
shut them down. Then
we will not have the degree of
Intransis is N January that we
did in November
Brian won by eighty eight thousand, but wasnt
enough because of Georgias
rules,
one buzz term. I heard that
resonates by Georgians outraged
by it is defund the police
clearly in a zoom call that
number and that stats and bar
graphs got back to Joe Biden.
Listen to this,
I dont think we should make
that a big issue going into
January fifth, when the election
takes place down in in um in
Georgia.
I also dont think we should get
too far ahead of ourselves in
dealing with police form and
that they have already labeled
us as being defund. The police
give me advice whether we
should do that before
January Fifth,
because thats, how they beat the
living hell out of us across the
country, saying that we are
talking about defund the police.
How much do we push between now
and January? Fifth, we need those two seats.
We need those two seats
about police reform.
Brian, he is saying, keep the
powder dry until January. Fifth, I
dont want the truth to get out
thats exactly what they are
doing.
James Carville theory lie lie,
lie up until the election and do
what you want
look. This shows the hypocrisy
of the Democrats and their
platform.
They want to defund the police,
they want illegal immigrants to
vote,
they want higher attacks and
they want to stack the courts,
but obviously they dont want to
talk about any of that, so mainly
what they are spending their
money on there down here is
attacking Kelly Loeffler and me.
What we are doing basically
right now is reminding the
people of Georgia whats at
stake here.
We wont get a second bite at
this apple.
This is the very last line of
defense against this agenda,
because Schumer changes that
filibuster rule, we wont get
that back
Brian running against a
documentarian who is for the
green deal whose main client is
China
im running against the guy
that worked directly for the
Chinese Communist Party in China,
and you know, tried to hide it
from voters in Georgia.
He did hide it from voters in
Georgia.
He got caught and lied about it.
He has got a bigger connection
to communist China than Hunter
Biden or Swalwell.
I mean this is a trophy that we
really need to get at rubber
stamp, like Raphael Warnock. The
two most liberal Democrats, the
put up in my lifetime-
they are going to be a rubber
stamp for Chuck Schumer in this
agenda that they want to
perpetrate.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-17.