Published 12:19 IST, January 4th 2021

'Abuse of power': Kamala Harris lashes out at Donald Trump over call to Georgia officials

US Vice president-elect Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump over his call with Georgia officials and urging them to ‘find’ votes to overturn Biden's victory.

Reported by: Aanchal Nigam
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US Vice president-elect Kamala Harris slammed outgoing President Donald Trump over his call with Georgia officials and urging m to ‘find’ votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. On January 3 in Savannah, Georgia, taking st at a drive-thru rally campaigning for democratic Senate ruff candidates, Harris called bombshell telephonic conversation, “bald-faced, bold abuse of power” when Trump can be heard assailing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for refusing to declare former winner of lection in Peach State. vice president-elect called Trump’s voice certainly that of “desperation”.

“Have y'all heard about that recorded conversation?" Harris asked rally-goers. "Well it was, yes, certainly, voice of desperation, most certainly that, and it was a bald, bald-faced, bold abuse of power by President of United States.”

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Biden’s senior adviser calls it ‘disgraceful’

Earlier, Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to President-elect Joe Biden had said in a statement that Trump’s stunning call with Georgia officials, first reported by Washington Post, as “disgraceful”. Bauer said that it “captures whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump's assault on American democracy.” Kamala Harris in her speech, catalogued failures of Trump along with several Republicans’ attempts to overturn election results and promoting false allegations of voter fraud.

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"And n look at most recent history, which is that after you elected, you turned Georgia blue, you elected Joe Biden President of United States, you elected first black woman in history of our country to be Vice President of United States, and y have gall to suggest you didn't kw what you were doing, you must have gone about it in a way that was illegitimate," Kamala Harris said.

With inauguration day being less than 20 days away, media reports also published Trump’s call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which outgoing President urged officials to overturn results. In call, which has already led to vice president-elect Kamala Harris bash Trump, out-voted President can be heard telling Georgia officials to ‘find’ votes. At one instance in conversation, Trump said, "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 state.” He n added, “You should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican."

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12:21 IST, January 4th 2021