Thousands of people from Georgia and across the Southeast packed the grandstands at Dalton Municipal Airport on Monday night to see President Trump as he campaigned for Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on the eve of Georgia’s runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats.
Trump arrived at about 9 p.m. Monday and built up the two Republican senators while continuing to decry the Nov. 3 election results that made Democrat Joe Biden the president-elect with victories in Georgia and in the nation as a whole.
“There’s no way we lost Georgia, there’s no way,” Trump told the crowd. “That was a rigged election.”
Trump continued in detail to list his complaints about the election – complaints that have been rejected by judges, high-ranking members of his own administration, the Electoral College, the U.S. Supreme Court – and Georgia’s GOP secretary of state, who repudiated Trump’s claims over and over in a recorded phone call on Saturday.
Trump’s appearance on Monday repeatedly flashed with resentment against Republican officials, including Gov. Brian Kemp, who have resisted his demands to be named the winner of the election, which he lost by 12,000 votes in Georgia.