President Donald Trump on Saturday night accused former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of conducting a "harvest" on ballots in the state, which is against a Georgia law passed in 2019.
"Did you see where Stacy is allowed to harvest but other people can't harvest," Trump said during his rally in Valdosta, Georgia, which aired on Newsmax TV. "How is that constitutional? Has anybody looked at that?"
Trump's comments doubled down on statements he made in November about Abrams, a powerhouse in the Georgia Democrat Party, after she touted on Twitter how many Georgia voters have requested ballots for the Jan. 5 Senate runoff race.
"I read this morning, where Stacey Abrams has 850,000 ballots accumulated," Trump said, according to a Fox News report. "Now that's called harvesting. You're not allowed to harvest."
Georgia in 2019 tightened its law about ballot harvesting and allows only for mailed-in ballots to be turned in from voters, their immediate family members, or a person from the same household, not gathered and then submitted.
Trump also Saturday urged those at his rally to go to Georgia's website and "register immediately" and to turn it back in the same day and not wait "so they can't say, 'gee, it didn't come in on time.'"
The deadline to cast an absentee ballot is Dec. 31.
"You know [Democrats] don't have any time limits," Trump said, referring to allegations of back-dated ballots in some key battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
"You know what they did in one of the states? Ballots were coming in late very, very late, so they backdated the ballots. We have all the information.
"We have so much evidence. They say we don't have enough evidence. We have hundreds and hundreds and even thousands of affidavits."
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