Trump Continues Attacks On Election Results At Georgia Senate Runoff Rally

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President Trump attended a rally in support of Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler on Saturday, in Valdosta, Ga., ahead of a crucial runoff election that will decide who controls the U.S. Senate.





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Trump also mentioned a debunked allegation pushed by his attorney Rudy Giuliani that election workers in Fulton County, Ga., illegally counted «suitcases full of ballots in secret after Republican monitors left for the night.

Election officials say the security camera footage, seized on by the Trump campaign as alleged evidence of election fraud, did not show any processes out of the ordinary. Georgia law does not require partisan monitors to be present for vote counting to occur, and law enforcement investigators with the secretary of state’s office found no evidence that improper ballots were added to the totals.

Trump also said that «phony, fake mail-in absentee ballots were used to «sabotage the election — and then gave supporters directions to request those types of ballots for the runoff.

Earlier in the day, Trump phoned Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to demand that he call the state legislature into a special session to overturn Georgia’s results and order an audit of the signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.

Kemp, who served as secretary of state for eight years, rebuffed the request for a special session. The governor reiterated in a tweet that he has called numerous times for a signature audit, which he’s said must be legally ordered by the current secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger.

Raffensperger, who voted for the president but has stood up to the mounting pressure and misinformation about the election, said auditing signatures is not necessary since they were checked multiple times before those votes were counted. Further, he said an audit would not be logistically possible for local officials who spent the past month counting 5 million ballots three times.

Kemp did not attend the rally Saturday night after a young campaign staffer for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Harrison Deal, and a close friend of the governor and his family, died in a car crash.

The Trump campaign has filed one of several lawsuits seeking to overturn Georgia’s election results, but so far no court has found evidence to warrant such a decision.