[ad_1]
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared again this Saturday the victim of a robbery in the elections
who lost last month, and in his first post-election rally he assured a crowd of supporters that he will end up winning the elections.
More than a month after the presidential elections, Trump launched another series of unsubstantiated accusations about the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The president had traveled to Valdosta, in the state of Georgia, to support the two Republican candidates who will contest key elections for control of the Senate in January.
But in his nearly two-hour speech, Trump, 74, took advantage of the podium to ensure he was not going to throw in the towel. His remarks drew an enthusiastic reaction from his followers, few of whom wore a mask, despite the rebound in COVID-19 cases in the United States.
“We are going to win these elections,” said the president, in a rally that recalled those of his recent electoral campaign. “It’s rigged,” he added of Biden’s victory.
His attitude already raises questions about how he will react to Biden’s future inauguration, on January 20.
“The key states that we are fighting for now, I won by far,” Trump falsely declared. “And I have to say that, if I lost, I will be a very elegant loser (…) But you cannot accept it when they steal, manipulate and fix,” he added.
Key legislative
Trump has barely left the White House since the US media announced Biden’s victory on November 7.
Some Republicans have expressed concern that Trump’s ongoing fraud allegations may reduce turnout in the Georgia Senate election.
There is a lot of game in the second round of the elections in that state. If Democratic contenders Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeat Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the Senate will split into two 50-member caucuses, which means Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will have the deciding vote, as dictated by the Constitution.
“Georgia voters will determine which party leads which committee, writes each piece of legislation, controls every taxpayer dollar.”Trump stressed. “Very simple, they are going to decide if their children grow up in a socialist country or if they grow up in a free country,” he launched.
The race has attracted enormous attention: donors across the country have given hundreds of millions of dollars, and such prominent figures as former president Barack Obama, Vice President Mike Pence – and now Trump himself – are fighting to boost voter turnout. .
Mixed messages
Despite a series of judicial setbacks, the president and his attorneys have propagated wild conspiracy theories (including one involving the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez) to explain Biden’s victory.
Biden won by about 12,000 votes in Georgia. A recount of the votes confirmed the Democrat’s victory, but that did not stop, according to the US press, Trump from calling on Saturday the governor of this southern state, Republican Brian Kemp, to ask him to pressure Georgia lawmakers with the order to nullify the result.
According to the Washington Post, Kemp, once a faithful ally of Trump, rejected his pressure on Saturday.
The president has not made it easy for the Republicans in Georgia, furiously attacking the authorities of his own party for his defeat in that state.
Despite his accusations about the election, there was a moment when Trump seemed to accept reality.
“A friend of mine said to me: ‘Oh, don’t worry sir, you are way ahead in the polls, you will win in 2024,'” he said during the rally. “And I said, ‘I don’t want to wait until 2024. I want to go back three weeks.’
[ad_2]
