Updated June 26, 2021 at 10:15 PM ET
As former President Donald Trump steadily ramps up public events, he held his first rally since leaving office on Saturday night in Ohio.
"We're gonna take back the House, we're gonna take back the Senate," Trump said, speaking before a crowd of thousands at a fairground in Wellington, a town southwest of Cleveland, in a county and state he won in 2020. "My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over. In fact, our fight has only just begun."
Trump railed against "left-wing indoctrination" in schools, "fake news media" and Big Tech "tyrants," while championing Georgia's controversial voter ID law. He pushed baseless claims to argue what he said were America's biggest threats — election fraud and illegal immigration — and resurfaced a favorite but false assertion that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him.