Trump shows no surrender in first post-election rally.

President Donald Trump made his intentions clear on Saturday that he had no plans of relinquishing his baseless claims that last month’s election was collected from him, telling a boisterous crowd at his first post-poll rally he would somehow still win.

In a speech remarkable for its twisting of reality in more than a month after the November 3 election, the outgoing president launched into another bout of allegations that the polls won handily by Democrat Joe Biden were rigged. In a nearly two hours speech, Trump, aged 74, announce that he would not concede to defeat, at times sticking to his script, and other times derailing from his claims.

”We are winning this election”, Trump told the rally, which was similar to his many gatherings prior to the election.

“It’s rigged, it is a fix deal. The swing states that we are all fighting over now, I won them all by a lot. And I have to say, if I lost, I’d be a very gracious loser. If I lost, I would say I lost and I would go to Florida and I’d take it easy and I’d go around and say I did a good job. But you can’t ever accept when they rig and steal and rob,” Trump said.

Note that Trump has barely left the White House since Biden was announced winner of the election on November 7, except for a number of trips he made to his nearby golf course.

There had been concerns from some Republicans over whether Trump’s continuing claim of fraud would drive down voter turnout among Republicans in the upcoming election, making his appearance in Georgia somewhat of a gamble. The run-off election will decide which party controls the US Senate, and Trump in his speech continued his fear-mongering about rival Democrats.

Figures as prominent as Ex-President Barack Obama, Vice-president Mark Spence and now Trump himself have scrambled to boost voter turnout. But while Trump offered words of praise for the two Republicans and invited them on stage for brief comments on Saturday, he spent time arguing that he had won the election.

Biden won Georgia by just under 12,000 votes.

That result, while narrow has been confirmed by subsequent recounts, making all the more surprising a phone call from Trump to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, reportedly urging him to press state legislators to overturn the result.

On Saturday however, there were indicators that Trump may seem to be beginning to accept what lies ahead.