US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally to support Republican Senate candidates at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia on December 5, 2020. (AFP photo)
US President Donald Trump once again railed against the results of the disputed November 3 election during a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
He made the remarks while campaigning in Valdosta for two Republican senators - Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue - at his first rally since the election.
He had supposedly traveled there as a show of support for the two senators for the January poll, however, spent the majority of speech railing against the results of the election.
At first he called on the crowd to vote Republican in runoffs on Jan. 5, which will decide control of the upper house and ultimately play a decisive role in Democratic Joe Bidens ability to legislate.
But he then quickly started to talk about widespread fraud in the presidential election.
"They cheated and rigged our presidential election but well still win it. And they are going to try to rig this election too," Trump told a crowd of thousands of mostly maskless, non-socially distanced supporters, who chanted "We love you!" and "Four More Years!"
He also called for those in government with "courage and wisdom" to help him reverse the outcome of the election.
Trump attacked the Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who was once one of his political allies, but has resisted calls to join the incumbents attempts to overturn the result in the state.
"Your governor could stop it very easily if he knew what the hell he was doing," Trump told the crowd.
He added that "for whatever reason your secretary of state and your governor are afraid of Stacey Abrams" - a reference to the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Abrams, who was a staunch voting rights advocate, helped drive turnout in the election and secure the state for Biden.
Earlier on Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Trump, during a phone call, pressured Kemp to annul the results in the state.
He also made a similar demand on Twitter in the afternoon.
Biden got 306 to 232 electoral votes and won 6.8 million more of the national popular vote than Trump.
The president, however, has not conceded defeat and launched an array of lawsuits to press claims of election fraud. His allies have also rallied around him over his refusal to concede the election.
US Attorney General Bill Barr said Tuesday there was no fraud in the election. "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election."
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