Trump rails against election result at rally ahead of crucial Georgia Senate runoff

President falsely claims he was cheated' and calls for people to vote in coming Senate races that will decide control of chamber

Donald Trump has held his first political rally since losing the presidential election, delivering an incoherent speech laced with baseless conspiracies theories about election fraud and attacks on Republican state officials in Georgia who have refused to help him subvert the results.

In front of a crowd of thousands of mostly maskless, non-socially distanced supporters in south Georgia, Trump repeatedly claimed, falsely, that he had won the presidential election, and called for those in government with courage and wisdom" to help him reverse the result.