Trump calls Georgia Senate removals “illegal and invalid” in New Year’s Tweets

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President TrumpDonald Trump Hotel Trump in DC raises room rates for Biden inauguration GOP lawmaker criticizes Trump and colleagues for “trying to discredit” election Video shows long lines on last day of early voting in Georgia MORE on Friday evening tweeted that next week’s election in Georgia’s Senate is “illegal and invalid,” though he has been trying to convince voters to support Republican party senators seeking re-election.

Trump started his series of tweets reiterating its unsubstantiated claims of “massive corruption that took place in the 2020 elections, which gives us many more votes than necessary to win all swing states.”

The president specifically pointed to a Georgia consent decree stating it was “unconstitutional,” which he later claimed made both runs in the Senate, as well as his own loss to Peach State for the president-elect. Joe BidenJoe BidenBidens pays tribute to front-line workers in New York: “We owe them, we owe them, we owe them” DC’s Trump Hotel raises room prices for Biden’s inauguration The video shows long lines on the last day of early voting in Georgia MORE, invalid.

The consent decree refers to a March agreement reached by state Democratic and Republican officials that provided voters with the opportunity to resolve ballots that contained an alleged mismatch between their signature as it appears on their ballot and the signature that election officials have.

Trump and his allies have argued in multiple failed lawsuits that the consent decree was illegal because the decision did not involve state legislatures. However, how The New York Times reported, several groups have pointed this out Supreme Court rulings allow legislatures to delegate their authority to other state officials.

Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Dalton, Wales, on Monday, a day before the Senate election, to encourage his supporters to run for GOP Sens. Kelly LoefflerKelly LoefflerVideo shows long lines on the last day of early voting in Georgia. Hawley attacks GOP with the Electoral College and fights Georgia GOP candidate forty days before the by-elections MORE i David PerdueDavid PerdueVideo shows long lines on the last day of early voting in Georgia, a candidate in Georgia, in his forties, days before the election., facing challenging Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.

Even campaigning for Republican Party candidates whose elections will determine which party controls the Senate, the president has continued to advance his unfounded accusations of voting irregularities and fraud in November, although the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory last month.

Trump has targeted Georgia’s top election officials and called on the government on Wednesday. Brian KempBrian KempKemp rejects Trump’s call to resign as a “distraction” from Georgia voters flood polls before crucial Senate contests Trump calls on Georgia Governor Kemp to resign MOREgiving up), tweeting that the governor it is a “Obstructionist” and attacking him for refusing to acknowledge that he won the presidential race in Georgia, despite Biden’s 12,000 votes in the state.

Kemp rejected Trump’s statements, telling reporters that his top priorities were to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and re-elect Perdue and Loeffler.

“All these other things: there’s a constitutional and legal process going on, and I feel very comfortable letting that process go. But this horse has left the barn in Georgia and is heading to DC right now.” , Kemp said of the presidential election.

“The next vote will be here, not here,” he continued. “So people have to focus on the vote that’s happening here, and right now on early voting and it will be on Tuesday.”

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