On the evening of the 5th of November, President Donald Trump participated in his first election rally in Georgia since the presidential election to support the Republican senator’s re-election bid. Trump said he has no intention of running in the 2024 presidential election but wants to return to the White House in three weeks, repeating accusations that his Democratic rivals rigged the Nov. 3 election.
President Trump told hundreds of Valdosta supporters, “They will try to convince us to accept defeat. We did not fail.” He condemned election fraud, adding that there was also fraud in the attempt to rig the race for two Georgia Senate seats, saying it was unacceptable.
The Georgia election is expected to be held on Jan. 5, and its outcome will determine the fate of the Senate and the balance of power in Washington, D.C. The election is expected to be held on Jan. 5. The contenders are two Republicans seeking re-election, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, along with Democrats John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
If Perdue and Loeffler don’t win, Trump said, “there’s nothing to stop the Democrats.” He added, “You don’t know how bad it’s going to get.”
Georgia’s Senate candidates failed to get enough votes to win the state’s two seats on Nov. 3, forcing them to fight this decisive election again.
Determining Control
If the Republicans lose the Senate seat in Georgia, the Senate majority title will pass to the Democrats, and President-elect Joe Biden will have both houses of Congress under Democratic control when he takes office on January 20 next year.
However, if Republicans retain the Senate majority, Biden will have to deal with a divided Congress, and Republicans will be able to prevent him from nominating government posts and pushing important bills.
Trump, who has so far refused to acknowledge his defeat by Biden, talked a lot about the presidential race in a speech in Georgia, recalling his victories in Florida and Ohio, and then made a statement contrary to the official election results, saying, “We won Georgia, too, and that’s great.”
The outgoing president slammed Republicans who refused to support allegations of election fraud in Georgia, including Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger. Georgia’s recount, which included a painstaking hand-verification of nearly 5 million ballots, found no major irregularities.
Lawsuit lost.
Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on what he calls the “no longer valid” U.S. election system, his legal team has not yet succeeded in providing the courts with any admissible evidence of election fraud, and Trump has lost dozens of lawsuits, but he continues to fight the battle and will appeal to the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, former U.S. President Barack Obama, in a remote campaign event in support of Georgia’s Democratic Senate candidates, said on April 4, “This is not just about Georgia, it’s about America and the world,” adding, “The election in Georgia will determine the fate of Biden’s term. Together with Vice President Harry, they (the two Democratic candidates) will deliver on their legislative promises.” President-elect Biden has said he will campaign for the Georgia Senate, but did not specify when.
In a related context, a federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overrule Biden’s victory in Georgia, and the court granted permission to hold an absentee ballot on the election for the state’s Senate seat, which was decided by a committee that included two of the judges on Trump’s list of Supreme Court justice candidates.
Electoral votes
A California court approved the results of the presidential election, and on the 4th of April, Biden officially received enough electoral votes, 279 in total, to make him president of the United States.
Biden widened the popular vote gap against Trump by more than 7 million votes, a gap that is likely to continue to widen as many states proceed with their vote counting processes, CNN said, noting that Biden received about 81.2 million votes, the most for a presidential candidate in U.S. history.
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