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Abuse of power, says incoming Vice President Kamala Harris after Donald Trump asked Georgia’s top election official to “find” votes to reverse the election.
“Trump’s actions reveal the voice of despair,” Harris said at an event in Savannah, Georgia, on Sunday night, where he campaigned on behalf of two Democrats fighting for state seats.
Harris called Trump’s attempt to turn the outcome of this fall’s election in Georgia “brazen, abusive.”
Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger is also reacting strongly.
– This is completely disgusting. Any congressman considering opposing the election result cannot do so with a clear conscience, in light of this, Kinzinger wrote on Twitter.
Flattery and threats
Harris and Kinzinger’s remarks came after The Washington Post published clips Sunday of an hour-long phone conversation between Trump and Georgia’s top election official, Republican Brad Raffensperger.
According to the newspaper, Trump tried to flatter Raffensperger in Saturday’s conversation, while also urging him to take action. In addition, he hinted at threats of consequences if Raffensperger refused to help him “find” more votes for Trump.
– 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 told Raffensperger in the phone call.
– Impossible that I lost
Raffensperger, for his part, rejects the president’s claims and notes that Trump relies on conspiracy theories that have already been rejected by the electoral authorities.
– The challenge you have is that the information you are sitting on is incorrect, says Raffensperger in the phone conversation with Trump.
– It is completely impossible that he lost in Georgia. It’s not possible. We won with hundreds of thousands of votes, says Trump.
The phone call is just the latest step in a long line of attempts by Trump to change the outcome of what has been described as a democratic and fair presidential election, the AP news agency writes. Trump’s latest attempt to change the outcome of the election comes just over two weeks before he has to leave the White House and two days before the rematch for the Senate seats in Georgia.
Three stories
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.
Even if the outcome of the Georgia elections had been hypothetically reversed, the 16 state election delegates would not have been enough to influence Biden’s election as the new president, as Biden has secured 306 election delegates. Trump has 232 electoral delegates.
He spoke of the Senate election
A major re-election in two Senate seats in Georgia will take place Tuesday, and the outcome will determine whether Republicans retain their majority in the Senate.
In the phone conversation with Raffensperger, Trump also said that if he does nothing before Tuesday, it will put the political future of the two Republican senators at stake.
Trump still believes he is the rightful winner of the presidential election in early November. The Electoral College has formally elected Biden president, and he will be installed later this month.
Trump’s repeated allegations of widespread election fraud have been rejected by the United States Attorney General, the country’s National Election Commission, foreign election observers and state authorities. Trump has not provided proof of the allegations.
(© NTB)
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