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Trump refuses to admit defeat days before Congress formalizes Joe Biden’s victory
US President Donald Trump told Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn the outcome of the US election.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes,” Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording published by the Washington Post.
On the call, you can hear Raffensperger reply that Georgia’s results were correct.
Biden defeated Georgia along with other swing states, winning 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232.
Since the Nov. 3 vote, Trump has been alleging widespread election fraud without providing any evidence.
On Sunday, the US president wrote on Twitter that Raffensperger did not give details of the fraud. “You have no idea!” Trump said.
All 50 states certified the results of the elections, some after recounting and legal recourse. So far, US courts have rejected 60 challenges to Biden’s victory.
Congress is expected to formally approve the election result on January 6.
Biden of the Democratic Party is expected to assume the presidency two weeks after ratification on January 20.
Voters in Georgia are expected to vote again Tuesday to elect two senators for the state. The outcome can determine the balance of power in the Senate: if the two Democratic candidates win, there will be an equal number of Republican and Democratic senators and Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have the deciding vote.
Biden’s Democrats already control the House of Representatives.
What happened during the call?
In excerpts published by the Washington Post, Trump can be heard flattering and pressuring the Georgian Secretary of State at different times.
He insisted that he had won the Georgia election and told Raffensperger that “there was nothing wrong with saying he recalculated.”
Mr. Raffensperger responded by saying, “The challenge you have, Mr. President, is that the data you have is wrong.”
Later in the same call, Trump said the rumor was that the ballots had been destroyed and the voting mechanism removed from Fulton County, a charge that Raffensperger’s attorney said was unfounded.
American Electoral College ratifies Biden as president-elect in the United States. What happens now?
The president then threatened the officer with possible legal consequences.
“You know what they did and you are not reporting it. This is a crime. You cannot allow this to happen. It is a great risk for you and Ryan, your attorney,” Trump said.
He said Raffensperger should review the result in the state.
“You can reexamine it, but reexamine it with people who want to find answers, not with people who don’t want to find answers,” he said.
“Mr. President, you have people who send information and we have our people who send information and then they come to court and the court has to make a decision,” Mr. Raffensperger replied. “We have to defend our numbers, we believe our numbers are correct.”
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