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by Causes | 1.3.21

What's the story?

\nPresident Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to \"find\" votes to overturn his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, according to audio posted Sunday by The Washington Post.\n

\"All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.\"

Trump lost Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes to Biden. \"Finding\" 11,780 votes would flip the state to Trump.
The audio was released shortly after this exchange on Twitter:

What does Trump say in the recording?

A full transcript of the audio can be found here.

The audio recording can be found here.

Throughout the one-hour phone call, which occurred on Saturday, Trump can be heard urging, lambasting, pleading, and threatening Raffensperger to find the votes to overturn his defeat. Here are some excerpts:

\nTrump: \"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you've recalculated.\"
\nRaffensperger: \"Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong.\"

\nTrump: \"The people of Georgia know that this was a scam, and because of what you've done to the president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote [in the runoffs]. A lot of Republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president.\"

\nTrump: \"You should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican.\"
\nRaffensperger: \"We believe that we do have an accurate election.\"
\nTrump: \"No, no you don't. Not even close. You're off by hundreds of thousands of votes.\"

\nTrump: “There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”

\nTrump: \"The ballots are corrupt. And you are going to find that they are — which is totally illegal, it is more illegal for you than it is for them because you know what they did and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to [German] Ryan, your lawyer. And that’s a big risk.\"

-Josh Herman

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