'Fight like hell': grievance and denialism rule at Trump Georgia rally
by David Smith in Dalton, Georgia from US news | The Guardian on (#5CDHP)
Unrepentant president urges voters to support Republicans in the Senate runoffs on Tuesday and veers off script with bogus claims of a stolen election
An unrepentant Donald Trump has urged voters in Georgia to back Republicans in Tuesday's Senate runoffs and vowed revenge against Republican state officials who refuse to overturn his own defeat.
On a chilly night at a remote airport in Dalton, the US president mercilessly aggravated divisions within his own party, embracing loyalists and castigating perceived traitors. While it was ostensibly a campaign rally on behalf of Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, he could not resist veering off script to push bogus claims of a stolen election.
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