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In a phone call, Donald Trump is said to have pushed for the outcome of the Georgia election to be changed. The Washington Post published recordings of the conversation with a secretary of state.
“It is not fair to take away the victory”: Donald Trump returning from his Christmas vacation in Palm Beach.
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Current US President Donald Trump continues to fight his electoral defeat: In an unusual phone call, the 74-year-old urged a subsequent change in the outcome in the state of Georgia. In the hour-long conversation, Trump bluntly urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is responsible for conducting the election, to “find” enough votes for him and “recalculate” the result as well. Washington Post reported Sunday.
The newspaper published parts of a recording of the conversation on Saturday. Other US media, including the AP news agency, later reported on the content of the conversation, citing recordings they had made. Republican Trump wrote on Twitter about the phone call with Raffensperger and insulted his party colleagues as “clueless.”
Trump threatened Raffensperger in the phone call that he was taking a “great risk” and possibly guilty of a crime if he did not act against electoral fraud. The incumbent president narrowly lost Georgia in the November 3 election. Democrat Joe Biden led with about 12,000 votes. There the results were reported twice. The end result changed only slightly, there was no evidence of electoral fraud.
Raffensperger: “What you say is not true”
In the phone call, Trump complained about the “wrong” result in Georgia and claimed that he had won the election. “I just want to find 11,780 votes … because we won the state,” he said, according to the recording. “We won the elections and it is not fair to take away the victory,” Trump said. “I can’t have lost Georgia.” “Hundreds of thousands” of questionable votes were cast, Trump claimed. “The dead voted,” he said.
Raffensperger should check the results again. There was “nothing wrong with declaring that everything had been recalculated. “But check it out with people who want to find answers,” Trump said. Raffensperger responded, according to the recording: “We have to defend our numbers. We believe our numbers are correct. “The Secretary of State also noted that the results had been upheld in court. He later wrote on Twitter, referring to Trump’s claims:” With all due respect, Mr. President, what you say is not true”.
“Obsessed and desperate”
The Washington Post article claimed that the “rambling and sometimes incoherent conversation” showed how “obsessed and desperate” the president was in the face of his electoral defeat. Trump still believes he can change the outcome in enough states to secure a second term in office, he said. Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and the Republican’s attorneys also participated in the phone call.
“The people of Georgia are angry,” Trump said. Runoff elections for two Senate seats will be held in the state on Tuesday, the result of which could topple a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives in Washington. Trump also wanted to personally campaign in Georgia on Monday.
Harris accuses Trump of abuse of power
The efforts of the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, to change the outcome of the elections in the state of Georgia retrospectively, represent a case of “blatant abuse of power” in the eyes of the Vice President-elect of the United States Kamala Harris. The Republican’s actions leave “the voice of despair.” “Acknowledge,” the Democrat said Sunday night at a campaign appearance in the city of Savannah, Georgia. Trump and his Republicans had filed six lawsuits against the outcome in the state, and therefore were unsuccessful.
Trump lost the election nearly two months ago, but he continues to refuse to acknowledge Biden’s victory. He will be sworn in as the new president on January 20. Biden garnered 306 votes from the electorate, significantly more than the 270 votes needed to win. In Georgia, votes were cast by 16 voters.
Trump has also questioned the results in other states, including Pennsylvania with its 20 electorate. However, he and his allies have been unsuccessful in their demands against the results; even Trump-appointed judges have dismissed the lawsuits, some with very clear justifications.
In the formal US electoral procedure, the certification of the results of individual states in Congress is due on Wednesday (as of 7:00 pm CET). Only then will it be official who has won the elections. Eleven House and Senate Republicans They have announced that they will oppose the results of the individual states during the proceedings. Disruptive action may delay confirmation of Biden’s election victory by a few hours, but it has no prospect of changing anything in the election outcome.
