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Donald Trump's attorney Lin Wood asks Georgia voters to 'withhold votes' if GOP candidates don't back president

Lin Wood said in a series of tweets that Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue should back the president in his fight against 'voter fraud'

President Donald Trump’s attorney Lin Wood has asked Republican voters in Georgia to hold off their ballots for the party senators in the key runoff elections in January till they are found to be doing enough to help the incumbent overturn the unfavorable outcomes of the November 3 polls. Democrat Joe Biden has been projected by the media houses to be the winner of the election beating Trump by a decent margin but the Republican commander-in-chief and his close aides have claimed that the election was stolen by the Dems. 

Wood, 68, said in a tweet mentioning the two Georgia Senators -- David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler -- that they did not deserve the voters' backing in the special election until they also joined the demand for action against the so-called ‘voter fraud’ in the Peach State. 

“Politicians love votes & money (not necessarily in that order). Want to get @SenLoeffler & @sendavidperdue out of their basements to demand that action must be taken to fix steal of the 11/3 GA election? Threaten to withhold your votes & money. Demand that they represent you,” he said in his post on Twitter.

In another tweet, Wood tagged Perdue and Loeffler and other top officials of Georgia’s administration like Governor Brian Kemp, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the state’s Attorney General Chris Carr -- all Republicans -- to take action and back Trump in his fight. He posted a picture of three canines to warn that they were becoming impatient and have teeth like Georgia’s voters.

In yet another tweet, Wood, who is best known for defending Richard Jewell in the Atlanta Olympics (1996) bomb threat case, took on Loeffler saying she was not elected but appointed by Governor Kemp (in January after incumbent Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons) and if she wanted to get the Republican votes, she needed to support the special session of the Georgia legislature and President Trump. Loeffler has put herself in isolation after her Covid-19 results were found to be inconclusive.

Why Georgia runoff elections are important

Perdue and Loeffler have so far remained silent on the issue of voter fraud which Trump and his aides have not succeeded in establishing. The GOP duo has instead focused more on their January 5 elections. The balance of the Senate will be decided by the outcomes of the Georgia elections. Till now, the Republicans have clinched 50 seats while the Democrats and their associates have bagged 48 (46 plus two). If the Blue party bags both the seats from Georgia, it will come down to a 50-50 tie but the Dems will be effectively in control of the chamber since Biden is poised to win the White House and Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have the power to cast votes to break the stalemate. The Republicans currently have a 53-47 lead in the Senate and will be keenly hoping the Georgia seats go to it to maintain the majority, even if slender. 

Both Loeffler and Perdue are in extremely tight contests with neither able to bag more than 50 percent of the votes in the election held earlier this month. Georgia requires the winner to get at least 50 percent of the voters to emerge the winner. 

In the case of Loeffler who contested in the special election, her Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock won nearly 33 percent of the votes in the November election while the former trailed him with 26 percent. Perdue, on the other hand, got 49.8 percent of the votes while his opponent Jon Ossoff got 47.9 percent. 
 
Wood has also filed a suit against Raffensperger and called into question some of his actions that he believed undermined the integrity of the recently held election. While the former argued that Georgia’s election should not be certified and a hand recount should be held, the latter refused to entertain the emergency motion. He also alleged recently that his fellow Republicans were putting pressure on him to find ways to exclude ballots.