On Monday, Georgia recertified its election results amid President Donald Trump's unceasing attempts to reverse the election results in several key states. After three counts of ballots, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed that the state found Joe Biden as the winner.

Georgia's second recount comes ahead of an impending federal deadline for states to sort out any challenges to their electoral votes. After Tuesday's deadline, which is set for states to resolve any issue in the presidential election, Congress will be abiding by those results and reject challenges.

Much to the chagrin of the president, the deadline further blocks the already narrowing options for him and his allies to challenge the Nov. 3 election results. According to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, more than a dozen swing states had already certified their election results as of Monday afternoon.

Machine recounts showed Biden was leading Trump by nearly 12,000 votes, according to The Wall Street Journal. State officials said there was a negligible change from the previously certified results, which was followed by a hand recount of votes, and confirmed Joe Biden's lead by 12,670.

Moreover, this certification also locks the state's results for the president-elect ahead of the Dec. 14 Electoral College vote. However, Trump has continued to strongly criticize Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who serves as the secretary of state of Georgia, and has pushed for additional signature verification, which is not possible at this point, according to CNN.

In a press release on Monday, Raffensperger noted that it had been 34 days since the Nov. 3 election, and the state has already counted legally cast ballots three times, but the results remain unchanged. He went on to make debunk claims about the Democrats stealing the election from the president is damaging the state.

Shortly after the election, Georgia carried out a full hand recount, which showed Biden leading by nearly 13, 000 votes. After the hand recount, the Trump campaign pushed for another recount citing the narrow margin of Biden's victory.

Shortly after the announcement, Trump slammed Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp. The president has repeatedly urged for a special legislative session in the state in a bid to challenge the election results once again, but Kemp has declined this request, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Raffensperger said that a special session to reverse Georgia's election results would nullify the will of the people on Sunday. The state's lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, also refused to support Trump's request for a special legislative session.