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Georgia recertified the results of its presidential elections after a second recount, requested by Donald Trump, confirmed that Joe Biden won the state.
President elect Biden he won the state by more than 12,000 votes on last month’s ballot, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win there in nearly three decades.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who likes it Mr trump, is a Republican, said: “We have now counted the votes legally cast three times and the results remain unchanged.”
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Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that the presidential election was rigged, saying that there was widespread electoral fraud and that poll watchers were denied access to the counts.
“They cheated and rigged our presidential elections, but we will still win them,” Trump told supporters in the state on Saturday in his first rally from Election Day on November 3.
The crowd responded by chanting “we love you” and “four more years.”
Trump continued: “Get Georgia robbed again, you can never look in the mirror.”
But counts in the state, including a hand-held review of around 5 million ballots, have found no significant irregularities.
Dozens of legal challenges from the Trump campaign have been rejected by the courts, the latest on Monday when a federal judge in Detroit threw out an attempt to decertify Biden’s election victory in Michigan.
Donald Trump at Saturday’s rally in Valdosta, Georgia
Georgia will appoint its electors within one week, on December 14, the date set for the Electoral College to formalize the result.
Two runoff elections for the Senate, scheduled for January 5, will determine which party controls the chamber.
Trump responded to his latest setback on Twitter, criticizing Brian Kemp, the Republican Governor of Georgia, for not accepting his request for signature verification of absent and mailed ballots and asking “what is he hiding?”
On Saturday, before his rally, the US president called Kemp to urge him to persuade the state legislature to overturn Biden’s victory, the Washington Post said.
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