The probe was launched in 2021 following Trump’s call that January with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he pushed the Republican to “find” votes to overturn the election results. The
President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fabricating a slew of votes that he said should've b
which Biden won. The investigation was launched after an infamous recorded phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump pressed him "to
Georgia Secretary of State says most votes will be counted by an hour after polls close Tuesday The official who oversees elections in Georgia said Monday that 70% of the state's votes will be counted by an hour after polls close in the crucial swing state. "We're going to have a free...
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump asked to "find" votes in a leaked phone call, testified that Trump received fewer votes than expected because roughly 28,000 Republicans who voted didn't choose a president that year, supporting GOP candidates...
Thefifth hearingwill provide “evidence that President Trump corruptly pressured state legislators and election officials to change election results,” including “details” about Trump’s call to Georgia officials urging them to “find” votes. ...
The Georgia governor's race wasn't the only Trump grudge match that backfired on the former president. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who personally rejected Trump's call to “find” enough votes to declare him the winner in Georgia, defeated his Trump-backed primary challenger as...
In elections that look this close, the winner is usually whoever can win key battleground states. Biden won the 2020 election in large part due to narrow victories in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — all states Trump took in 2016. ...
His lawsuits gaining little to no traction in courts around the country, the president urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2021 to “find” the nearly 12,000 votes needed to overcome the deficit in the state to Biden. Trump also ratcheted up the pressure on ...
“So look. 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.”– Donald Trump, in aJanuary phone callwith Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. ...