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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia's Perdue sues over loss of Senate seat to Ossoff a year ago
ATLANTA (AP) Days after announcing his candidacy for governor, Republican David Perdue further embraced debunked claims of electoral fraud in Georgias 2020 presidential race by joining a lawsuit seeking to prove he and former President Donald Trump were cheated out of election victories.
The suit claims that fraudulent or counterfeit ballots were counted in Fulton County, the states most populous jurisdiction, although investigators rebutted the same claims previously.
Perdues lawsuit amplifies claims that the former senator has made this week since announcing a challenge to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday. Perdue told Axios and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he wouldnt have certified Georgias 2020 results if he had been governor then, unlike Kemp. Georgia law says the governor must certify results.
Trump has repeatedly savaged Kemp for not doing enough to overturn the loss. After inviting Perdue to run, Trump endorsed Perdue on Monday, saying Kemp has been very weak on election integrity.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/georgias-perdue-sues-over-loss-of-senate-seat-to-ossoff-a-year-ago-01639176016
Quite the sense of entitlement these MAGAts.
tanyev
(49,671 posts)a few decades ago. That spot was stolen from me!
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)PCIntern
(28,581 posts)skylucy
(4,024 posts)were more mature about losing than these idiot Trumpers.
andym
(6,069 posts)I think that might stop some of this.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)At what point does the judiciary kick these charlatans before they reach the courthouse doors?
Takket
(23,799 posts)if i call 911 and say a building is on fire, and laugh my ass off when the fire department shows up, I get arrested and charged for filing a false emergency report.
I don't see why this constant claims of election fraud with no proof should be any different. There should be legal consequences for perpetuating the Big Lie.
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(954 posts)...have at it. I say let Perdue and Kemp hurt mortally wound each other in that GOP primary while Stacey continues to raise money and put feet on the ground.
Perdue is garbage, and by going on social media threads and trashing him, we're doing Kemp's work for him. Perdue is terrible, but Kemp is, too - albeit a quieter kind of terrible.
Cha
(320,534 posts)Magat Shit.
You LOST ASSHOLE.. GET OVER IT.
tulipsandroses
(8,298 posts)for him and in the process weaken Kemp. Perdue will follow trumps lead and be as trumpian as he can be. Kemp will not be undone and will go even further. Kemp is not going to endorse the big lie. But he will try to out racist Perdue. The problem for Kemp, it wont work in the general election. His racism to best Perdue will turn off some would be voters and hes not getting the MAGA vote.
Already Perdue is calling for a debate about allowing Buckhead to be its own city. Kemp will probably try to take this talking point away from him by saying he will approve
Buckhead separating from Atlanta.
2naSalit
(103,805 posts)The character of Sheriff Buford's son in "Smokey and the Bandit"
Seriously, I haven't thought about that movie since it came out until this Perdue clown showed up.
gab13by13
(32,753 posts)Remember Ruby from Rachel last night? Her daughter talked her into helping count ballots. Trump and now Perdue are claiming she dumped thousands of fake ballots into the election.
Ruby and her family have been getting death threats, threats of being hanged, the grandson can't study because they are leaving threats on his cell phone. They go to her door and bang on it. She called 911 and the cops showed up, while there they answered numerous phone calls meant for Ruby with threats of violence. Local police have done absolutely nothing to stop the threats. The FBI did intervene on 1/4, it told Ruby to move out of her house because it wasn't safe, so she did and they were right, a mob showed up at her house on 1/6. That is what DOJ has done to help Ruby, told her to move out.
That's what this law suit is about, keeping the Big Lie alive and tormenting poor Ruby.
Cuing the poster who told me in another thread there is nothing that law enforcement can charge anyone with.
DFW
(60,429 posts)If hes suing to get his Senate seat back, then he obviously isnt very confident that he has a chance to knock Kemp out in the primary.
Luciferous
(6,601 posts)spanone
(142,051 posts)SKKY
(12,811 posts)When he loses, Perdue should be penalized with a fine equivalent to the cost this undoubtedly forces upon the defense and the court. There simply has to be a consequence to BS lawsuits like this.