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Angry Donald Trump promises rally in battleground state of Georgia

Washington | ByAssociated Press | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri
Nov 27, 2020 08:07 AM IST

Donald Trump took questions for the first time since Election Day and angrily denounced officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania.Trump said he would hold a rally with thousands of supporters in Georgia on Saturday to support a pair of Republican candidates

President Donald Trump has renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states led to his election defeat, and said he’ll go to Georgia to rally supporters ahead of two Senate runoff elections.

President Donald Trump has renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states led to his election defeat(AP)
President Donald Trump has renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states led to his election defeat(AP)

“This has a long way to go,” Trump said on Thanksgiving evening, despite the fact that President-elect Joe Biden won the election. “This election was a fraud. It was a rigged election.” Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Thursday after speaking with US military leaders overseas.

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After his conversation, Trump took questions for the first time since Election Day and angrily denounced officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania, two key swing states that helped give Biden the win, as “enemies of the state” and claimed they were culprits in vote fraud.

State officials and international observers have repeatedly said no evidence of mass fraud exists and Trump’s campaign has repeatedly failed in court.

Trump said he would hold a rally with thousands of supporters in Georgia on Saturday to support a pair of Republican candidates — Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler — whose runoff elections on January 5 will determine which party controls the Senate.

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