David Perdue Says He Would Not Have Certified Georgia’s 2020 Election Results

Republican Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue says he would not have certified the state’s presidential results until an investigation into allegations of fraud was conducted had he been governor.

Speaking to Axios, Perdue, a former senator, said he would not have certified the state’s election results “with the information that was available at the time and not with the information that has come out now.”

“They had plenty of time to investigate this. And I wouldn’t have signed it until those things had been investigated, and that’s all we were asking for,” he added.

Perdue also told Axios that he would have called a special session of the legislature to “protect and fix what was wrong for the January” run-off Senate elections.

He also noted that he “never asked for a reversal” of his election defeat in his reelection bid for the Senate.

“What I’ve asked for is to get this cleaned up, to make sure that our elections going forward are fair and can rebuild the confidence of people,” Perdue added.

Georgia’s secretary of state conducted three audits of the election results and found no evidence of fraud.

Perdue announced he would launch a primary challenge of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), as IJR reported