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The 2021 Georgia Senate runoff and the 2020 presidential election “were stolen.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Related reporting discusses the events in the claim but does not establish that either was stolen. A 2026 article about Trump’s political influence says he attacked Georgia’s election integrity in 2021, in the aftermath of his 2020 defeat, and that this discouraged Republican turnout in the general-election runoff. It describes the political consequences, not evidence of fraud in the runoff or presidential election. Separate reporting recounts Trump’s January 4, 2021, remarks in Dalton, Georgia, the day before Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their Senate runoffs. Trump said, “There is no way we lost Georgia” and called it “a rigged election.” The account places those comments in the context of his refusal to accept losing the presidential campaign to Joe Biden; it does not say he alleged that the Senate runoff itself had been stolen. These excerpts therefore document claims and political context, but do not provide a factual examination of whether either election was stolen.