In Georgia Senate Debate, Loeffler Wouldn't Say Trump Lost

Perdue declined to debate Ossoff, leaving Ossoff speaking Sunday night next to an empty podium.While many of the attacks have focused on Raffensperger, Trump has recently taken aim at Gov. Brian Kemp, who he campaigned for in 2018, after calling on him to help overturn the results of the election.Last Sunday, during a phone interview with Fox Business, Trump said that he was “ashamed” to have endorsed Kemp and during a rally for Loeffler and Perdue on Saturday night, Trump suggested that another Republican primary Kemp.Raffensperger and Kemp have pushed back on Trump and Loeffler’s claims and have urged Republicans to stop pushing conspiracy theories that have triggered threats against election system workers and officials.“There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half truths and misinformation,” Raffensperger said during a press conference last week.Last week after Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting systems implementation manager warned that “someone is going to get killed’, Loeffler condemned violence and added that she also condemned “inaction and lack of accountability in our election system process—and won’t apologize for calling it out.”There have been no substantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in Georgia and the state has already conducted two statewide recounts of the general election ballots.Ryan Brooks is a politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.Contact Ryan Brooks at ryan.brooks@buzzfeed.com.Got a confidential tip?