Washington, Jan 7 (TIWN) Democrat Jon Ossoff is on track to defeat Republican incumbent David Perdue in the US Senate runoff in the state of Georgia, which would the Democratic Party control of the upper chamber, multiple media outlets have projected.

In President Trump's speech in front of protesters on Wednesday, he briefly touched on the Georgia runoff elections, falsely claiming that Democrats "cheated like hell" to win. Georgia's top elections official said Wednesday there has been no evidence of irregularities despite Mr. Trump's claims.   Mr. Trump was speaking ahead of Congress counting the Electoral College votes, and he thanked the Republicans who will object to the election results.   

"Kelly Loeffler, I'll tell you she's been — she's been so great, she worked so hard, so let's give her and David a little special hand because it was rigged against them," Mr. Trump said. "Let's give her and David, Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue, they fought a good race, they never had a shot, that equipment should've never been allowed to be used." 

Mr. Trump has baselessly alleged voting machines in Georgia were not working, and tweeted on Tuesday that Dominion Voting machines were "not working in certain Republican Strongholds." Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refuted those claims on Tuesday, saying a "small number of the keys that start up the paper-ballot scanners were programmed incorrectly" and all issues were resolved by 10 a.m.