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"Hello, Georgia. By the way -- there's no way we lost Georgia. There's no way. That was a rigged election." -- the first words out of Trump's mouth in Dalton, Georgia
Trump doesn't seem to realize that David Perdue, who is currently quarantining after Covid exposure, isn't in attendance at the rally
Trump's followers in Dalton, Georgia, don't seem particularly interested in the Senate runoffs. They start chanting "fight for Trump!" as Trump tries to encourage them to go vote for Perdue and Loeffler.
"If the liberal Democrats take the Senate and the White House -- and they're not taking this White House. We're gonna fight like hell." -- Trump
"I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. I have to tell you ... of course if he doesn't come through, I don't like him quite as much." -- Trump
"I'll be here in about a year and a half campaigning against your governor, I guarantee you" -- Trump has now pivoted to bashing Georgia's Republican governor and secretary of state
me me me me me
"The wall. The wall. The wall. Remember? 'We'll build a wall. We're gonna build a wall.' And that's right, Mexico is paying for the wall. Or if I were here, they would be." -- Trump
LOL -- Trump is back to fear-mongering about caravans of immigrants
Trump's audience in Dalton, Georgia, has mostly been sitting in silence as he whines
"They're not stepping up" -- Trump goads his followers into booing the Supreme Court for not overturning his election loss
Not too many masks in the crowd of Trump supporters
"I don't concede ... I think we're gonna win, in which case we'll be the last line of defense. It's called, 'veto, veto, veto.'" -- Trump
Take a gander at how bored Trump's followers look as he tries to pump up David Perdue
Trump's audience could not be more bored as he tries to promote Kelly Loeffler
yikes
Trump calls Loeffler on stage. She says, "I have an announcement, Georgia. On January 6, I will object to the Electoral College vote. That's right. We're gonna get this done!"
Loeffler is serenaded with "fight for Trump!" and "stop the steal!" chants as she leaves the stage
"I love Marjorie Taylor Greene" -- Trump praises a congresswoman who has embraced the batshit QAnon conspiracy theory
"MIke Lee is here, too. But I'm a little angry at him today."
"She doesn't really like the concept of running for office. She says, 'what do I need it for, dad' ... come on up here, honey" -- Trump on Ivanka
Trump is struggling to get to the finish of this speech
Trump goads his followers into booing Fox News
you could hear a pin drop at Trump's rally in Dalton, Georgia. His audience is checked out.
Trump wonders aloud why Democrats didn't try to help Hillary Clinton steal the 2016 election -- prompting his followers to break out in "lock her up!" chants
Now that Trump got the perfunctory promotion of Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue out of the way, he's whining at length about voting machines and Republicans who won't help him overturn his election loss
Because of course, Trump just bragged about the Gallup poll that showed him as the "most admired man" of 2020, and cites it as alleged evidence that the election was rigged against him
President Boomer
Trump is out here making defamatory statements about Dominion voting machines
"Miacopa County"
"Everyone loved my phone call" -- Trump on his widely criticized phone call with the Georgia secretary of state in which he tried to bully him into helping him steal the election
who wants to tell him?
"Section 230, we have to get rid of Section 230, politicians, or you're not gonna have a country very long" -- Trump suggests the US will meet its demise unless Twitter is punished for mildly flagging his lies
"We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools" -- Trump hasn't even bothered updating his stump speech to reflect the fact that, you know, he lost, and he's leaving office soon
"We will never, ever surrender"
Trump somehow botches the word "America"
Trump caps off what's likely to be his last rally as president with some awkward dancing to "YMCA"
Trump's last rally as president illustrated how his base is far more interested in his efforts to steal the election than they are in the Georgia runoffs https://www.vox.com/2021/1/4/22214512/trump-dalton-georgia-rally-runoffs-perdue-loeffler
