Trump takes the stage in GA and it's immediate, unfiltered denial:
"I've had two elections. I won both of them."
Trump warns that Democrats want "unchecked, unrestrained, absolute power over every aspect of your lives."
Then he vows not to respect the election outcome: "They're not taking this White House. We're going to fight like hell."
More projection from Trump: "There's nothing radical Democrats won't do to get power, like the radical stealing of elections."
And then, on Pence, the quiet part out loud: "And I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you..if he doesn't come through, I won't like him quite as much."
Now, on to attacking Kemp and Raffensperger:
"Your governor and your SOS, they're petrified of Stacey Abrams ... They say they're Republicans...I don't think so."
"I'll be here in about a year and a half, campaigning against your governor and your crazy secretary of state."
Trump playing the hits, but halfheartedly:
"Remember the caravans? The caravans are starting to form. Here they come."
Keeps snapping back to the matter at hand, threatens Republicans about implicit primary challenges ahead of Electoral College certification:
"People will remember the people who don't support us," Trump says, bluntly.
Now, he's venting about the Supreme Court "not stepping up to the plate."
"They say, Sir, you don't have standing. How about that?! I'm the president of the United States... What kind of a legal system is that?"
"These senate seats are truly the last line of defense," Trump says, before quickly noting that isn't tantamount to him conceding the presidency.
"I don't concede."
Loeffler takes the stage to tout that she "will object to the Electoral College vote" on Jan. 6. "We're going to get it done."
Okay. And now we have QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene up to the stage.
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"If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he said.
No indication any of the votes currently being counted are illegal.
MSNBC immediately cuts away for a fact-check. CNN stays with it.
"Fake polls were designed to keep our voters at home," Trump said. "They were what's called suppression polls."
It's true public polling was off, not true it was a suppression tactic. Also an odd argument, that his voters stayed home, when he's bragging about his big win.
Some technical issues in Kenosha to start rally no. 4. Trump complains about his microphone and the crowd yells that it can't hear him in the back.
Trump switches mics, slams the one affixed to the lectern down, informs the crowd they're witnessing history: "This is the first time I've ever used a hand-held."
Trump stream-of-consciousness on possibly losing to Biden:
"Is this guy really thinking about? Could he really win? Are we serious about this? [Boos] What the hell is going on? Are we serious? Guy has no clue. He's shot."
Trump, in Dubuque, Ia.: "If Biden gets in, you can forget about ethanol, you can forget about everything."
Trump, self-annotating his scripted remarks again:
"No one has fought harder for the people of Iowa. That's true!"
Trump claims Biden's huge fundraising numbers, powered largely by online donors desperate to oust Trump, have come "by making deals," presenting it as if was a data point to support his unproven corruption allegations.
Trump, in Michigan: "You didn't have any auto plants four years ago."
He is freezing but still making time for the usual tangents, telling stories about Pavrarotti being "a diva" and inserting the windmill riff into his closing argument:
"If you want to see a lot of dead birds, go to the bottom of the windmill."
Trump on Texas, where his supporters surrounding the Biden/Harris bus forced them to cancel an event:
"Did you see our people? They were protecting his bus yesterday."