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Trump Campaigns in Georgia for Republican Senators

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   U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to the key southeastern state of
   Georgia on Saturday to campaign for two Republican senators running
   against Democratic challengers in the January runoff election that will
   decide which party controls the Senate, but he mostly repeated his
   claims of widespread vote fraud.

   "You know we won Georgia, just so you understand," Trump told the large
   crowd gathered for the first post-election rally for the president. Few
   in the crowd wore masks.

   Democrat Joe Biden, a former vice president, unofficially won Georgia
   by fewer than 12,000 votes out of about 5 million cast, the first
   Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since 1992.

   Hours before his trip to Georgia, the president called GovernorBrian
   Kemp, urging the fellow Republican to call a special session of the
   state legislature to get lawmakers to override the vote results and
   appoint electors who would back him, according to The Washington Post.

   The governor refused, according to sources in Georgia and the White
   House who spoke on condition of anonymity, The Associated Press
   reported.

   The Republican Party needs one more seat to maintain its majority in
   the U.S. Senate. Republican SenatorDavid Perdue must defeat Jon Ossoff
   in the January5 runoff election in Georgia, while Republican
   SenatorKelly Loeffler must overcome a stiff challenge from Raphael
   Warnock. If the Republicans lose, resulting in a 50-50 Senate,
   Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would cast the
   tie-breaking vote.

   Trump, a Republican, repeatedly has said without evidence there was
   widespread fraud in the November election, a claim frequently rejected
   by federal and state officials.

   "They cheated and rigged our presidential election, but we'll still win
   it. And they are going to try to rig this election, too," Trump told
   the crowd Saturday night in Valdosta, Georgia.

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