US president Donald Trump repeatedly pressed Georgia’s top election official to change the presidential vote tally in the state to ensure his victory over Joe Biden, in one of his most brazen attempts yet to cling to power.
In an hour-long call with Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, on Saturday, Mr Trump urged him to “find” the 11,780 votes he would need to win the state, insisting that there was “no way” that he was defeated.
“The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry,” Mr Trump said, according to clips of the conversation posted on the Washington Post’s website. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.”