"There's no way we lost Georgia," says the president, getting off to a good start.
"I've had two elections. I won both of them, it's amazing. I actually did better in the second one," he continues.
As Trump mentions Kelly Loeffler, a "fight for Trump" chant overtakes the crowd and the president pauses to let it wash over him.
"Your vote tomorrow will decide which party will control the United States Senate," says Trump, implicitly conceding that he lost the presidency.
He quickly backtracked, saying that the Democrats were not going to take the White House.
"I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you," says Trump, implying Pence has some sort of power to affect the Electoral College count on Wednesday, which he does not. Biden is still going to be the next president.
The president is now spouting a lot of nonsense about why he won the election (he lost).
"What's with this Stacey Abrams?" Trump asks, to boos. "Your governor and your secretary of state are petrified of Stacey Abrams. What's that about?"
"I'll be here in about a year and a half campaigning against your governor," Trump says, promising to come back to defeat Brian Kemp in a GOP primary.
"I'm gonna be here in a year in a half, and I'm gonna be campaigning against your governor and your crazy secretary of state," Trump continues.
"Ft. Trump, how about that? I like that. Let's change it, Kelly. Let's change it. Now they'll go back and say 'he wants Ft. Benning to be named for Trump.' Nah, I don't want that," says Trump, joking about the new law that will rename bases formerly named for Confederates.
"Now we're being laughed at all over the world over this election," says the president, though not in the way he thinks.
"I'm not happy with the Supreme Court. They are not stepping up to the plate. How about that? Look at the Supreme Court. President of the United States. I wanted to file a suit. They said 'sir, you can't do that.' I said, why? They have complex legal reasons."
"If the left wins these Senate seats, they will abolish the filibuster, and I've been saying for a long time, they're gonna do that, and we should do it first."

This is the conflict between what he actually believes (get rid of it) and what his speechwriters believe (keep it).
"You know what I want? I want a great country, I want these two special people to get elected," says Trump. "If you don't go and vote, the socialists, the Marxists will run the country."
"I think we're going to win, in which case we'll be the last line of defense. It's called veto, veto, veto," says Trump, warring with his teleprompter, which wants him to paint Loeffler and Perdue as the last line of defense because Trump will be out of office.
"On January 6th I will object to the Electoral College vote. We're gonna get this done," says Sen. Kelly Loeffler, to raucous cheers.
"Stop the steal" and "fight for Trump" chants again as Loeffler leaves the stage.

"It's really 'fight for our country,'" says Trump.
"I love Marjorie Taylor Greene. Come up here, Kelly wants you to come up here," says Trump, inviting to the stage the Q-Anon promoter whose views on Black people and Islam were called "appalling" by Kevin McCarthy just months ago.
"Mike Lee is here today, but I'm a little angry at him," says Trump, pointing out the Utah senator who has said he doesn't back the challenges to the Electoral College count.
"I also came with somebody who people like a lot. People like her a lot. She doesn't really like the concept of running for office. She says, 'what do I need it for, Dad?'"
"You must deliver a Republican victory so big the Democrats can't rig it or steal it away...I ran two elections, I won both of them," says Trump. "We're not gonna have that tomorrow, where you're leading and then boom, it's gone, like magic."

(He did not win two elections.)
"I should have run up to the podium and said, 'thank you very much for this wonderful victory.' Maybe then they wouldn't have had time to do what they did," says Trump, which is basically what he did when he said he won on Election Night in November.
"I watched some of the people on Fox, I had no choice," says the president, to large boos. "Right here in Georgia there were tens of thousands of illegal votes cast." This is not true.
We've gotten to the part where the president is sharing the numbers he referenced on the call with Raffensperger (the one where he pressured Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to give Trump the win). These numbers are BS, as explained by Raffensperger, Sterling, and others.
The president is saying a whole bunch of nonsense now which doesn't bear repeating and might get my Twitter account suspended.
And now we have a "lock her up" chant IN 2021.

Folks...
"In Bibb County, B-I-B-B, anyone live in Bibb County?"

Trump is just now discovering the joys of Georgia's way too many counties.
"I just want Mike Lee to listen to this while I'm talking, because you know what, we need his vote."
"Somebody came up to me and said, 'Sir, you're way up in four years.' I said, "I'm not interested in four years, I'm interested in eight weeks ago," says Trump, discussing a potential 2024 run.

"Nope, we go this way first, and I think we're gonna do it."
Biden "can't speak, he can't talk," says Trump, who minutes ago was pronouncing Maricopa County, Arizona (home of Phoenix) as Maya-copa.
And that's a wrap!

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