It took newly announced Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue less than one week to dive straight down the 2020 election conspiracy rabbit hole in search of Trump’s cultists. After publicly asserting that he would cheat for Donald Trump at any cost, Perdue filed a lawsuit Friday resurrecting baseless fraud claims about Fulton County absentee ballots. The suit is reminiscent of several other failed legal challenges to the state’s results, including one that sought to review nearly 150,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County. A state Superior Court judged dismissed that case on standing, a legal standard that Perdue might be able to clear. As a former U.S. Senator who ultimately lost his reelection bid last fall, Perdu arguably would have suffered injury if widespread fraud had ensued. Read more