Day 1,416: Trump spent most of Georgia rally speech baselessly alleging election fraud and blaming GOP governor

Donald Trump traveled to Valdosta, Georgia on Saturday, ostensibly to stump for Republicans senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The two are in run-offs against Democratic opponents Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff respectively.

If the Democrats win both seats, they’ll control the upper chamber and take the gavel from Mitch McConnell’s hand. If Republicans eke out even a split, Joe Biden will enter office with a GOP-controlled Senate.

But as the rally, it soon became clear that Trump just wanted to continue to air his grievances to Georgians about their Republican elected state officials and baselessly assert that he won the state.

“We won Georgia, just so you understand,” Trump said, even though his loss in the state has already been certified by Georgia election officials. Trump ended up repeating this lie so many times throughout his speech that by the end of it he was mentioning it in passing as if it’s settled fact.

Despite his insistence that the Georgia Republicans who run the state at best looked the other way while Democrats conspired to steal the election from him, Trump at other points urged his fans to go out and vote for Loeffler and Purdue [sic], saying things like, “If you don’t vote, the socialists and communists win.”

But what the president didn’t bother trying to explain is why Republican voters should have any confidence the runoffs won’t be rigged just like he says the presidential election was, given that they will be run by the same officials.

Trump, who lost, said if he lost, he’d be a gracious loser. But over the past month, Trump, who lost, has been anything but a gracious loser.

The rally was supposed to be about Loeffler and Perdue, who got mere moments to speak. But Trump can never make anything about others. Surprising absolutely no one, the gathering was to stroke Trump’s ego and to let him try and blame others for his own loss.

If Loeffler and Perdue go down with the ship, Trump appears totally at peace with that because he lost too.

1,416 days in, 46 to go

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