“On January I will vote for President Trump and the American people to give them a fair hearing and support the objections to the Elect College Ralph College Certificate Process,” Lofler said in a statement on his official Twitter account.
Loffler will launch a separate effort from his dozens of fellow Republican senators, who have already said they will challenge Democratic presidential-elect Joe Biden’s victory during the certification vote. At least 140 House Republicans will also object to the certification.
Just minutes before Loffler’s tweet, his colleague Georgia Republican, Sen. David Perdue tweeted a clip of his visit to Fox News on Sunday, in which he said he urges his colleagues to raise objections.
He said, “I encourage my colleagues to object. This is exactly what the American people want right now.” “There are big irregularities in Georgia. They need to be investigated, and in my opinion, they need to be corrected.”
Both Loffler and Perdu are in the midst of a tight election race in Georgia, where they will meet their respective Democratic opponents, the Rev. Rafael Warnock and John Osof will face off – a day before the certificate vote.
Republican Rafansperger oversees three different counts of the November vote in the state and conducts several other reviews of the process. He recently commissioned the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to audit the signature match system in Cobb County, which determined that the system was 99.9% accurate and had no evidence of fraud.
Perdue not only said he would encourage his teammates to object to Trump’s loss, but claimed that he should have won in November, although he did not reach the required 50% threshold to avoid a runout.
Until now, Loffler and Perdue have avoided the question of whether to accept the results of the presidential election. Both are staunch supporters of Trump and both have not accepted Biden as president-elect.
Before his statement came out, Lofler had ruled out the possibility of objecting to the results of the Electoral College. On December 20, CNN asked Loffler what his plans for this week’s vote were and he said, “Right now on the table. This president has fought for us, we are fighting for him. We need free and fair elections. But we also have that.” We need to make sure that Georgians leave and vote on January 5. “
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