Georgia’s Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan (R) is dismissing calls from President Donald Trump to cooperate in his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election in his state.
Trump reportedly called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Saturday to pressure him to call a special session of the legislature to appoint electors to the Electoral College to vote for Trump instead of President-elect Joe Biden.
But during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Duncan poured cold water on that idea.
Host Jake Tapper asked Duncan if he thought Trump “crossed the line” by urging Kemp to overturn the results of the election.
Duncan noted that he was not on the call, but vowed that Georgia officials would “continue to follow the letter of the law” and discounted the idea of calling a special session of the legislature.
“To be clear,” Tapper said, adding, “The governor is not going to call a special session of the general assembly so the legislature can appoint its own electors for Trump as opposed to what the voters chose, which is electors for Biden.”
Duncan responded, “I absolutely believe that to be the case, that the governor will not call us into a special session.”
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He continued as he sought to defend the security of the vote in Georgia, “If I had a chance to spend five minutes with every single person in Georgia that doubted the election results, I think I would be able to win their hearts over.”
“So, yeah, on January 20th, Joe Biden is going to be sworn in as the 46th president. The Constitution is still in place. This is still America,” he added.
Finally, he raised concerns that Trump’s efforts to sow doubts about the election are giving a “playbook to the Democrats for January 5th.”
He added, “I can’t think of a worse playbook to handoff over the last four or five weeks to the Democrats.”