WASHINGTON: Vice President-elect of the United States. Kamala harris on Sunday President Donald said Triumphis phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger showed a ‘voice of despair’ from the incumbent president, The Hill reported.
According to The Washington Post, Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to reverse his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call.
Addressing the crowd at a campaign event for Georgia’s Democratic Senate candidates, Harris said, “Have you heard about that recorded conversation? … Well, yes, it was certainly the voice of despair, certainly that … It was a blatant and audacious abuse of power by the President of the United States. ”
In her speech, the vice president-elect also criticized the president for calling Georgia’s runoff “illegal” and “invalid,” saying he was suggesting that the people of Georgia were committing a crime, The Hill reported.
“And I’m raising all of this to remind us to ask ourselves a question whenever we see these powerful people who are trying to make it difficult for us, trying to make it confusing, trying to invalidate our voice,” he added.
In a recording obtained by The Post, Trump “alternately berated” Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act, and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to continue with his false claims, warning at one point that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”
“The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry … And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated,” Trump said on the recording, to which Raffensperger responded, “Well Mr. President, the challenge you have is that the data you have is incorrect. ”
Georgia’s secretary of state debunked Trump’s conspiracy theories and said President-elect Joe Biden’s victory by 11,779 votes in Georgia was fair and accurate.
“There is no way Georgia lost … There is no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes,” Trump said.
Trump also told the Georgia Secretary of State that failure to act before Tuesday would jeopardize the political fortunes of David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, the two Republican senators from Georgia whose fate in the second round of elections that day will determine control. of the United States Senate.
Trump’s call for Raffensperger came as dozens of Republicans pledged to challenge the Electoral CollegeI am voting for Biden when Congress meets for a joint session on Wednesday.
Trump has urged his supporters to travel to Washington to protest the result, and state and federal officials are already preparing for clashes outside the Capitol.
President-elect Biden’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20.
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