Trump calls Georgia Senate ‘illegal and invalid’ in New Year’s tweet

President TrumpTrump hotel in DC raises room rates for Biden inauguration GOP legislator criticizes Trump, colleagues for ‘trying to discredit’ election. Video shows long queues on the last day of early voting in Georgia. Tweeted Friday night that the Senate by-elections in Georgia next week are “illegal and invalid”, even though he wants to convince voters to garner their support behind the IDP senators.

Trump begins his series of tweets by repeating its unfounded allegations of ‘massive corruption that took place in the 2020 election’, which gives us far more votes than is needed to win all the Swing States. ‘

The president specifically took note of a Georgia consent decision that he said was “unconstitutional”, which he said made both the two Senate races, as well as his own loss in the Peach State to the president-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenBidens honors frontline workers in NYE address: ‘We owe them, we owe them, we owe them’ Trump hotel in DC raises room rates for Biden inauguration., invalid.

The consent decision refers to a March agreement reached by state Democratic and Republican officials give voters the opportunity to determine votes that contain an alleged mismatch between their signature as it appears on their ballot paper and a signature that election officials have on file.

Trump and his allies have argued in several failed lawsuits that the consent decision was illegal because state lawmakers were not involved in the decision. But, like The New York Times reports, several groups pointed out Supreme Court rulings enable legislators to delegate their authority to other civil servants.

Trump is expected to hold a rally in Dalton, Ga. On Monday, one day before the Senate by-elections, to urge his supporters to come to GOP Sens. Kelly LoefflerKelly LoefflerVideo shows long queues on last day of early voting in Georgia Hawley sorry GOP with Electoral College fight Georgia GOP candidate to quarantine days before election MORE and David PerdueDavid PerdueVideo shows long lines on the last day of early voting in Georgia Georgia GOP candidate to quarantine days before run-off election Ex-GOP senator from Georgia gets a mild stroke: report MORE, who face Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.

Although the president is campaigning for the GOP candidates, whose election will determine which party controls the Senate, the president continued his unfounded allegations of irregularities and fraud in November, despite the election college confirming Biden’s victory last month.

Trump has targeted the best election officials in Georgia and on Wednesday called on governments. Brian KempBrian KempKemp rejects Trump’s call to resign as ‘distraction’ from Georgia voters ahead of major Senate contests Trump calls on Georgia’s government to resign(R) resignation, tweet that the governor is a “Obstruction” and attacked him for refusing to admit that he had won the presidential race in Georgia, despite Biden’s lead of about 12,000 votes in the state.

Kemp rejected Trump’s remarks and told reporters he had the highest priority to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to re-elect Perdue and Loeffler.

‘All these other things – there’s a constitutional and legal process going on, and I’m very comfortable letting the process play out. “The horse left the barn in Georgia and is now on his way to DC,” Kemp said of the presidential election.

“The next vote is going to be there, not here,” he continued. “People should therefore be focused on the vote that is taking place here, and it is now in the early vote and it will take place on Tuesday.”

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