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Trump, meanwhile, has railed against the November results throughout the runoff, attacking GOP officials in the state, falsely calling the election rigged and even pressuring the Republican secretary of state to “find” votes to overturn the result. His posture has frustrated Republicans and complicated their efforts in the state to get his supporters back out to the polls, especially as he has continued to undermine the party’s messaging and inflame tensions among GOP leaders.
But on Monday night in the state’s conservative northwest corner, Trump rallied thousands of his supporters in an effort to boost turnout among his supporters in the state. High turnout among GOP voters on Tuesday would likely give Republicans two victories.
“This could be the most important vote you will ever cast for the rest of your life,” Trump said at a rally on an airport tarmac in Dalton — though his appearance was more geared toward pressuring GOP lawmakers to back his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election during Wednesday's joint session of Congress, when both chambers will vote to certify Biden’s Electoral College votes.
Both Republican campaigns claimed that Election Day turnout was strong in the area where Trump appeared on Monday, though they cautioned in a joint statement to reporters that "this is going to a very close election and could come down to the difference of just a few votes in a few precincts across the state."
Democrats are hammering Loeffler and Perdue over their support of Trump’s long-shot bid, which has attracted the support of more than a dozen senators and a large chunk of House Republicans.
“Whether [Trump] knows it or not, he’s on his way out the door. What concerns me is that we have two United States senators in Georgia who are aiding and abetting an effort to literally rob the people of their voices and their votes,” Warnock told reporters Tuesday. “I think that’s outrageous. The good news is: The people of Georgia have a chance to do something about that right now.”
Democrats have consistently called on their voters to finish the job following Biden’s win in the state, and the message has resonated among his supporters.
Jeff Fauntleroy, a retired police officer there to see Biden, Ossoff and Warnock at their rally here Monday, said he cast his ballot on the first day of early voting and thought Biden and the Democrats would return “civility” to Washington. And he said Trump was helping them make the case.
“The best thing you do is just keep him talking,” he said of Trump.