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re: TRUMPs' Crumbling Empire-$300+Mil Debts & Missing Melania
US Election: Trump Tells Georgia Election Official to 'Find' Votes to Overturn Biden Win
Trump Demands Georgia Official Find 11,780 Votes for Him
He is heard pleading with Georgia's election chief to overturn Joe Biden's win in the state, according to audio clips obtained by The Washington Post.
CBC / BBC News, 4 JAN 2021.
Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn the election result.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post.
Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia's results are correct.
Joe Biden won Georgia alongside other swing states, winning 306 electoral college votes to Mr Trump's 232.
Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris called Mr Trump's comments "a bold abuse of power".
It comes ahead of two crucial runoff elections in Georgia on Tuesday that will decide which party controls the Senate.
Since the 3 November vote, Mr Trump has been making unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
All 50 states have certified the election result, some after recounts and legal appeals.
Congress is due to formally approve the election result on 6 January and Mr Biden, a Democrat, is due to be inaugurated as president on 20 January.
Jan.03 -- Donald Trump called Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to demand that he find just enough votes to overturn the president's loss in the state to Joe Biden. Trump's comments were in a recording obtained by Bloomberg News and reported earlier by the Washington Post. Also on the call were Ryan Germany, the secretary of state’s legal counsel, Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer for Trump, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
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FULL PHONE CALL:
During an hourlong phone call, President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the 2020 election results
. Trump said, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”»
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