Later on Sunday, Senator Kelly Loeffler was scheduled to debate her Democratic challenger, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Mr. Trump traveled to Georgia for a rally on Saturday to mobilize support for Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler in the January runoff. Yet the president mostly used the stage to air his grievances over the election, lashing out at Gov. Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state.
“You know we won Georgia, just so you understand,” Mr. Trump said in his first rally as a lame duck president, adding, “They cheated and rigged our presidential election, but we’ll still win.”
Mr. Trump lost the state by just under 12,000 votes to President-elect Biden, who won the White House with 306 electoral votes and was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since 1992.
Still, Mr. Trump has continued to contend that the outcome is not final. On Saturday, he pushed for Mr. Kemp to call for a special session of the Legislature, during which lawmakers could appoint electors who would override the popular vote and hand Mr. Trump a victory for the state.
But in his CNN appearance on Sunday, Mr. Duncan said he believed that Mr. Kemp would not bow to the president’s demand.
“Calling the General Assembly back in at this point would almost be along the lines of a solution trying to find a problem,” Mr. Duncan said. “We’re certainly not going to move the goal posts at this point in the election.”
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