raffensperger didn t return the call. and the next day, georgia certified biden s victory as expected. trump later went on fox news to publicly land bask governor kemp, for not playing along with trump scheme, to steal the election. they had judges making deals, and they had electoral officials making deals, like this character in georgia, who s a disaster. and the governor has done nothing, he s done absolutely nothing. i m ashamed that i endorsed him. now, a few days later, trump actually called kemp personally, to pressure him into calling a special legislative special, where state republicans in the state legislature could throw out biden s victory, and instead, appoint a slate approach from election, which you might remember was also the basis of trump lawyer john eastman s coup plot. during this time, kept made an effort to publicly defend himself, mostly honestly, but just throwing the republican secretary of state, raffensperger, out of the bus. get this, here s a statement
merit-based. they want a points system so you bring more high skilled immigrant workers into the country. there s a sive vicks test, an english language test. fundamentally there s attempt to change the conversation at the mouse to talk about how they can be pro immigration at least on the high skilled part. a lot this plan doesn t do. it doesn t make much of a nod to the political reality. that is you ll need to get democrats, even republicans on board. in some ways it s a test on whether or not the president can continue to shape the republican party in his own mold or whether or not they ll fall into line on immigration as well. hallie. the press secretary think had a chance to talk to reporters about the idea this doesn t include anything related to dreamers, right? reporter: so she was pressed on this earlier. she came out and talked to fox news and did her driveway gaggle with reporters and she was asked on whether or not this would include daca. this was her response. ever
of office in 2020. i was going to ask you, if your contention is that money talks, and if that s not going to send a message with these economic boycotts in your view, how does political pressure actually bring about change? is the goal then to start all over, wipe out as many of these lawmakers as you can and try to start fresh? it seems like that s an uphill path. broth of these are uphill battles. you have to think about which is most likely to succeed. the bill that passed in georgia won t take effect until january 2020. we know there will be elections in november of 2020. georgia s house of representatives is 15 votes away from being majority democratic. we have congressional races where we have the likelihood of picking up a couple of states and redistricting happens in 2021. if there s investment made on the ground in the organizations building political power and also fighting in the courts, we have the absolutely ability to take the house and change the trajectory of the s