"[20] The petition called on Governor Brian Kemp to convene a special session of the legislature to award Georgia's 16 electors to Trump, who narrowly lost the state.

[22] On January 5, 2021, hours before the U.S. Senate certified the electoral votes from the 2020 election, Jones brought a letter signed by himself and 16 other state legislators attempting to delay the certification.

[23] While Jones had a private audience with Vice President Mike Pence that evening he decided against delivering the letter instead leaving it with his Uber driver.

[23] On January 19, 2021, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan stripped Jones of his chairmanship and membership of the state Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.

[25] In July 2021, Jones was featured at a pro-Trump convention in Rome, Georgia, centering on Trump's false claims of election fraud.

[26] In July 2022, Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis announced that she had sent a target letter to Jones and two other Republican officials, warning them that they face indictment in connection with the fake electors scheme, which was part of the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

[27] Judge Robert McBurney blocked Fani Willis from building a case against Jones because she planned to host a fundraiser for Charlie Bailey, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

[28] On August 14, 2023, Jones was named as unindicted co-conspirator #8 as part of the Fulton County indictment against Donald Trump and 18 others in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election,[29] and in April 2024 the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia announced that it was investigating whether to move forward with criminal charges against him.

[35] Between February and May 2022, Jones used his family's private aircraft to travel to campaign events, without reporting the flights' costs as expenses and in-kind contributions on disclosure forms; Jones' campaign said that he intended to report the costs as a single line item after the primary election was over, although Georgia law requires expenses and contributions to be disclosed as they are made.

Jones' words came in response to a $66 million dollar slate of cuts to the state college program as part of the 2023 budget that Perdue felt as harmful.