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The ten senators write that attempts to question the election result “are contrary to the will of the American people, which has been clearly expressed.”
The signatures include Republicans Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mitt Romney of Utah.
Republican Susan Collins is among those who now believe
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The ten senators are now among several who react to President Donald Trump’s many attempts to change the outcome of the election. On Sunday, it emerged that the president called Georgia’s top election official, Republican Brad Raffensperger, and asked him to “seek” more votes for Trump.
In the phone recording, Brad Raffensperger responds that the president is sitting with incorrect information.
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– Listens. All I want is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state, Trump can be heard saying on the recording. The case was first published by the Washington Post, but several US media have published images of the conversation.
Under Georgia law, it was perfectly legal for Raffensperger to record the conversation without Trump’s approval.
– Water door glass
“This is much worse than what happened under Watergate,” famous journalist Carl Bernstein told CNN.
Carl Bernstein believes that the recording shows that the president is willing to do everything possible to undermine the outcome of the election.
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He is one of the journalists who exposed the raid of the Republicans with the Democrats and that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Trump’s latest attempt to change the outcome of the election comes just over two weeks before he has to leave the White House. Georgia performed a vote count three times, with Joe Biden winning the entire time. This did not sit well with Trump.
Just weeks ago, Trump retweeted a claim from an attorney who wrote that, among other things, Raffensperger will be jailed after declaring Biden the winner.
Biden won the Georgia election by a margin of 12,779 votes. Previously, the state was considered a safe republican state.
If the outcome of the Georgia elections had changed, the 16 state delegates would not have been enough to give Trump the victory. Biden has secured 306 electoral delegates, while Trump has 232.
Former defense ministers warn
In a Washington Post column, all now living former US defense ministers warn against military involvement in US elections.
They fear that in the coming days the Trump administration will try to use the defense to train Joe Biden to assume the presidency.
“Attempts to involve the US military in the resolution of electoral disputes could lead us into dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory,” the ten former Pentagon chiefs wrote in the newspaper.
The stakes are high in Tuesday’s new elections
A new election in Georgia this week will determine who gets the majority in the Senate. None of the senators who ran for office on November 3 won a majority.
Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are now running against Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. If both Perdue and Loeffler lose, Republicans will lose a majority in the Senate.
In the November elections, Republicans retained 50 seats, while Democrats have 48. Only Georgia’s two seats remain at stake.
If Perdue or Loeffler win, the Republicans retain control. But if both Ossoff and Warnock were victorious, the parties would support each other with 50 senators each.
In that case, control passes to the Democrats. That’s because incoming vice president Kamala Harris has a double vote.
