In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.
Thousands of Georgians came out, largely unmasked, to the rally site at Valdosta airport—not for the candidates, but for their president, the fighter, their fighter. Chants of"fight for Trump" drowned out the senate candidates when they briefly spoke.
The rally was a success for Trump, strengthening his connection to his personal base. For the Republican party, it was a disaster. Donald Trump's rally for Georgia's GOP Senate candidates was good for Trump but not for the Republican party. The president at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia on December 5, 2020. -After perfunctory introductions of Loeffler and Perdue, Trump pivoted back his favorite subject, his fictitious narrative of a stolen election."You know we won Georgia, just so you understand," the president said,"and we won Florida and we won a lot of places. ...
In his two-hour speech, Trump called the state of Georgia corrupt and said that votes were coming out of the ceiling and out of leather bags. He urged everyone to vote, cautioning that they needed to make sure that no one threw out any ballots, that the Georgia secretary of state didn't know"what the hell he's doing." And at every point, the crowd interrupted with shouts of"stop the steal.
"Very simply you will decide whether your children will grow up in a socialist country or whether they will grow up in a free country and I will tell you, this socialist is just the beginning for these people, these people want to go further than socialism they want to go into a communistic form of government and I have no doubt about it," Trump said.
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