republican senator kelly lefler is
facing a big runoff in georgia next
month
if she retains her seat she would give
republicans the majority in the senate
and offer a check on a biden harris
administration
for numerous policies she joins me now
senator leflar good to have you here
thank you very much
for joining us tonight so one of the
issues with the upcoming election
is how the vote will be carried out
and the rnc today filed a lawsuit on a
number of fronts with regard
to these voting boxes and having proper
surveillance on them
and also the issue that i think was so
pervasive
in so many people's hearts and minds you
know having people be able to in there
in there and watch the vote
from both parties can you give us an
update on
what is changing for this next election
well absolutely martha thank you for
having me on this is a really important
topic because of what's at stake on
january 5th
and look georgians need to know that
they can trust the voting process
and we're making sure that every legal
vote is counted and that no
illegal votes are counted we're building
a very robust
organization to make sure that leading
up to january 5th we're doing
everything we can whether it's at
polling or during the process
to make sure that we're rooting out any
issues because we know we had issues not
just
november 3rd but we had issues in our
primary back in june
so we now have 250 investigations open
here
in our state we need to get to the
bottom of those before january 5th
because chuck schumer has promised to
take georgia and then change
america and we have to hold the line
right here in georgia's
and georgians have to trust the process
but the structure that
you know stacey abrams had put in play
which expanded
the eligibility of a lot of votes put
the voting boxes in a lot of places
not so much surveillance on some of
those places now this rnc lawsuit
you know give people what what assurance
do you have
that any of that can be reversed in such
a short time frame people are already
voting in georgia
absolutely and georgians are frustrated
i'm frustrated the president's
frustrated we need to get to the bottom
of these
investigations we're looking at what we
can do around those
uh ballot boxes uh we're working to
train poll workers we're going to be
there to validate
to verify signatures we are making sure
that we have a very robust organization
because of what's at stake on january
5th it's the direction of the country
really
if you think about what the democrats
would do they'll raise
taxes they'll keep us locked down
they'll implement the green new deal
they'll have government takeover of
health care
and my candidate in my race his
organization his voting organization
which was founded by stacey abrams
is under investigation for voter fraud
trying to register
voters from new york they absolutely are
and we've talked about that quite a bit
here because i think what people
need to understand about all this is
that so much of this groundwork was laid
before any of these elections started
and they have vastly changed the way
that people vote all across the country
and then you layer covet on top of that
and you've got
a just an entirely new way of voting in
the country and we need to determine
whether or not it's
it's right this is from mark elias who
is the
dnc attorney who was at the head of
about 75
cases across the country that helped to
change these rules and he says this the
republican war on voting continues
the rnc just filed a lawsuit in georgia
attacking drop boxes and trying to
increase
poll watching for the january 5th senate
runoff
we will intervene to defend the right to
vote from gop suppression what do you
say to mark elias
well i i say that my opponent rafael
warnock has partnered with stacey abrams
in advancing these voter con
suppression conspiracies uh look we've
had record turnout
in elections here in georgia year in
year out
what i'm focused on is making sure
georgians understand what's at stake on
january 5th and that's why president
trump
came to georgia saturday night to
valdosta to make sure that georgians
know that they have to get out
and vote early voting starts here on
monday
so we've got to make sure that people
know if we vote
we will win if we don't vote not only
will we lose
we can lose the country that's how
serious this is and that could happen
even with a small sliver of voters who
listen to
sydney powell and lynn wood and say you
know what we're so frustrated with what
happened in the
in the presidential election we're going
to stay home how concerned are you about
that given how close this is likely to
be
well it is going to be close martha
that's why we need to make sure that
we're doing what we can to build
voter confidence we're doing that
through our campaign campaigns we have a
vast uh organization a thousand
employees forty thousand volunteers we
are
getting out the word about voting and
then we're gonna turn out the vote and
make sure people get to the polls
because that's how we address
this challenge it's not by staying home
that's what the democrats want us to do
they want us to be frustrated they're
trying to frustrate us we're not going
to let that happen
and from what i see on the ground people
are energized i've been going around the
state
vice president pence was here friday
president trump was here saturday
my debate on sunday showed the stark
contrast
between what's at stake not just for our
state but for the country
so your opponent raphael warnock doubled
down on some of what he said on sunday
night
watch this you have my commitment
that we must demilitarize the police
and we need to deal with the
privatization of prisons
and so it is something that i will be
focused on
a lot of this is driven by the war on
drugs
which has too often been a war on black
and brown
your reaction to his comments today
well you know you saw it firsthand my
opponent is the most radically liberal
candidate we've seen in this country for
senate
he's called police officers gangsters
thugs and bullies
when i gave him a chance to apologize he
refused to do it he said we need to open
up the prisons
he said we need to eliminate cash bail
i'm focused on making
our our community safer more secure so
that
families can live the american dream
that i've been blessed to live
we need to make sure that we understand
exactly who he is
in his own words he said that you can't
serve god
and the military he's falsely used the
bible to attack our men and women who
are keeping our country
safe that's wrong for georgia and that's
wrong for america
we'll be watching uh the race and the
developments in the coming weeks really
closely
senator lefler thank you for joining us
tonight good to have you here
thanks for having me martha thank you