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ATLANTA (AP) President Donald Trump badgered and pleaded with Georgia s election chief to overturn Joe Biden s win in the state, suggesting in a telephone call that the official find enough votes to hand Trump the victory.
The conversation Saturday was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to pressure a state official to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost. The renewed intervention and the persistent and unfounded claims of fraud by the first president to lose reelection in almost 30 years come nearly two weeks before Trump leaves office and two days before twin runoffs in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate.
Trump, on tape, presses Georgia official to find 11,780 Trump votes
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Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to âfindâ him votes
By JEFF AMY, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and KATE BRUMBACK
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Trump under fire for call with Georgiaâs secretary of state
President Donald Trump is under fire for a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to find votes allowing him to win the state.
ATLANTA - President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of criminal offense if officials did not change the vote count, according to a recording of the conversation.
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Legal experts and some Democrats suggested the president’s actions may have violated the law. Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate Democratic whip, issued a strongly worded statement urging a criminal investigation, saying Trump sought to “intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting” a legally counted vote. Law professors, including Stanford’s Nate Persily, tweeted out relevant sections of Georgia’s election code.
Two months after the election, and almost three weeks after the electoral college certified Biden’s victory by a 306-232 margin, Trump is backing expected challenges to the results by congressional Republicans in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday that typically is ceremonial in nature. Scores of Republican House members and at least a dozen GOP senators have signaled support for the effort, which could result in hours of debate before each chamber is expected to reject the protest.
Kristi Noem targets Kamala Harris as she campaigns for Loeffler in Georgia Print this article
MCDONOUGH, Georgia Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem offered a different reason to vote for Georgia GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday s critical runoffs: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
“If we don’t win these Senate seats, the deciding vote in the Senate is going to be Kamala Harris, the most extreme liberal senator we have,” Noem said Sunday in McDonough, Georgia, warming up the crowd for Loeffler.
The governor added of Harris, We don’t want that individual breaking ties in the Senate on the most controversial pieces of legislation in this country.”
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