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Democrats have strongly condemned pressure from President Donald Trump to overturn the election results in Georgia, which were revealed by a leaked phone call, and called for a criminal investigation, and also decided to introduce a bill in Congress to rebuke him.
The leaked call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Ravensburger unleashed a storm of criticism for the outgoing president, who continues to deny the victory of his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the last presidential election and alleges that he was manipulated.
The Washington Post website had obtained a recording of the call in which Trump asked Ravensburger, a Republican official, for more than 11,000 votes to bridge the gap between him and Biden, and changed the outcome in this state, which was between various undecided states, and was a witness. 5 million voters vote.
Biden’s deputy, Kamala Harris, described Trump’s efforts to overturn the Georgia election results as a “bold abuse of power.”
Harris said in a speech delivered during an election campaign in Savannah, Georgia in support of Democratic Party candidates in the second round to select state representatives in the Senate, that the current president’s actions reveal the “voice of despair” within he.
For his part, Bob Bauer, senior adviser to the president-elect, said the leaked call is conclusive evidence that Trump has pressured a party official to pressure him to cancel the legal vote count approved in his state and fabricate new ones. votes instead.
He added that the call embodies the entire shameful narrative about Donald Trump’s attack on American democracy, as he put it.
Schiff accused Trump of rejecting democracy (Reuters)Criminal nature
In context, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, considered the convocation among the worst cases of abuse of power by Trump, and it may be criminal in nature, he said.
“Trump’s contempt for democracy has been exposed,” said Schiff, who led the Republican president’s legal trial in Congress last year.
For his part, Senate Senior Democrat Dick Durban called for a criminal investigation into Trump’s leaked call, while his colleague Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemned this act by a “desperate and corrupt president.”
Sanford Bishop, a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia, was quoted by the Politico newspaper as saying that the president’s call with the secretary of state contradicts measures of American democracy and may be illegal.
Meanwhile, the Democratic legislator from the same state, Hank Johnson, said that this Monday he will present a draft resolution in the House of Representatives to reprimand Trump for his efforts to reverse the electoral result in Georgia.
Johnson added, in a tweet on Twitter, that Trump should immediately resign, indicating that what he had done was a violation of federal and Georgia law.
In the same context, the president of the Republican Party in Georgia, David Schaeffer, announced that the president had filed two lawsuits, one federal and one local, against Secretary of State Brad Ravensburger due to the leaked phone call.
For his part, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Paul Ryan, expressed his opposition to the efforts of some Republicans in Congress to oppose the results of the presidential elections.
Ryan said in a statement that questioning the electoral college votes and Joe Biden’s victory hit the foundations of the republic. Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger also asked his party members not to follow the president in his campaign to overturn the election result.
The outgoing president had announced that he will attend the demonstration against the election results, scheduled for Wednesday in Washington, DC.
A common message
Ten former defense ministers of the United States published a joint statement in the Washington Post, in which they indicated that the time to question the election results had passed, after the courts decided the cases and the states confirmed the results.
The undersigned ministers, namely: Mark Esper, Ashton Carter, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Bantia, Donald Rumsfeld, William Barry and Dick Cheney, added that efforts to engage the armed forces in the resolution of electoral disputes, that would lead the country to dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory.
They went on to say that they did not swear for the good of a person or a political party, but that they swore to defend the constitution against all enemies, whether local or foreign.
The former ministers stressed that Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller must comply with the oath and refrain from any action that undermines the electoral results.
Propaganda banner in Summerville, Georgia in support of (French) Democratic candidatesGeorgia elections
Meanwhile, Georgia will witness a second round to select state representatives in the Senate tomorrow Tuesday, and the vote will determine whether Republicans keep their majority in the House or if Democrats take it away.
Opinion polls show intense rivalry between the two Democratic candidates: John Usoff and Raphael Warnock, and their Republican rivals: Kelly Loveler and David Purdue.
Outgoing President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden are scheduled to go to Georgia today in support of each party’s candidates.
In the event that Democrats win both seats, they will extract the majority of the Republicans in the Senate, as the two parties will equal the number of seats with a weighted vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, and if this is achieved, Biden will govern. more comfortably.
Notably, the state of Georgia has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in 20 years.
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