On March 9, 2024, supporters of Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump utilize their cellphones during a campaign rally held at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia. Alyssa Pointer/REUTERS
Reuters, ROME, Georgia -Defiant and resentful, Donald Trump made his way back to the state on Saturday where he is being prosecuted for allegedly tampering with the 2020 U.S. presidential election in an attempt to win Georgia and reclaim the office.
Georgia will be crucial in November’s general election, as evidenced by the fact that President Joe Biden campaigned in neighboring Atlanta on the same day that Trump was making his Georgian stops.
During his speech, Trump falsely claimed over and time again that he was the victim of massive election fraud. He also attacked Fani Willis, the Georgia district attorney who is pursuing him for tampering with the 2020 election, claiming she was collaborating with the Biden administration to single him out.
“They’re attempting to eliminate us, and it won’t succeed,” Trump declared to the assembly in a Rome, Georgia stadium.
Meanwhile, Biden attacked Trump, saying he was “sucking up to” the right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary at his club in Florida in recent days.
Georgia, which went for Biden in the 2020 election and was at the center of Trump’s allegations of fraud, might be the most fiercely disputed state in the general election on November 5.
Tuesday’s nominating contests in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington state are anticipated to determine Trump’s party’s nominee.
In his heavily critical State of the Union address on Thursday, Biden accused Trump of undermining bipartisan immigration reform, endangering democracy, and caving in to Russia.