Trump calls Georgia Senate layoffs ‘both illegal and invalid’ in New Year’s tweets

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President TrumpDonald Trump Trump hotel in DC raises room rates for inauguration Biden GOP lawmaker criticizes Trump colleagues for ‘discrediting’ election Video shows long lines on last day of early Georgia vote MORE tweeted Friday night that next week’s elections to the Georgia Senate are “both illegal and invalid” as he tries to persuade voters to support the GOP senators seeking reelection.

Trump started his series of tweets by reiterating his baseless claims that “massive corruption took place in the 2020 election, giving us far more votes than it takes to win all Swing States.”

The president specifically noted a Georgia assent decree that he said was “ unconstitutional, ” which he said made both the two senate games and his own loss in the Peach State as president-elect. Joe BidenJoe BidenBidens honors frontline workers in NYE’s address: ‘We owe them, we owe them, we owe them’ Trump hotel in DC raises room rates for inauguration Biden Video shows long lines on last day of early vote in Georgia MORE, invalid.

The assent decree refers to an agreement reached in March by Democratic and Republican government officials offered voters the opportunity to correct ballots that contained an alleged discrepancy between their signature as it appears on their ballot paper and a signature that election officials have on file.

Trump and his allies have argued in multiple unsuccessful lawsuits that the assent decision was illegal because the decision did not involve state lawmakers. However, like The New York Times reported, several groups have pointed out Supreme Court rulings allow lawmakers to delegate their authority to other government officials.

Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Dalton, Georgia, on Monday, a day before Senate elections, to encourage his supporters to come for GOP Sens. Kelly LoefflerKelly Loeffler Video Shows Long Lines On Last Day Of Early Georgia Vote Hawley Blocks GOP With Electoral College Fights Georgia GOP Candidate To Quarantine Days Before Second Election MORE and David PerdueDavid PerdueVideo Shows Long Lines On Last Day Of Early Voting In Georgia Georgia GOP Candidate To Quarantine Days Before Second Election Ex-GOP Senator From Georgia Suffers Mild Stroke: Report MORE, competing against Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff respectively.

Even while campaigning for the GOP candidates, whose elections will determine which party runs the senate, the president has continued his baseless allegations of voting irregularities and fraud in November, despite the electoral college confirming Biden’s victory last month.

Trump targeted the top electoral officials in Georgia, calling for Gov. Brian KempBrian KempKemp rejects Trump’s call to step down as ‘a distraction’ Georgia voters flood polls ahead of pivotal senate conflict Trump calls on Georgian Governor Kemp to step down MORE‘s (R) resign, tweet that the governor is a “Obstructionist” and attacked him for refusing to admit that he had won the presidential race in Georgia, despite Biden’s lead of about 12,000 votes in the state.

Kemp rejected Trump’s comments, telling reporters that his top priorities were to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to 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 ahead. But that horse has left the barn in Georgia and is now going to Washington, ”Kemp said of the presidential election.

“The next vote will be there, not here,” he continued. “So people have to be focused on the vote that’s going on here, and that’s in the early vote now and it will be Tuesday.”

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