Published 12:53 IST, January 6th 2021
Georgia: Trump claims he found another 4,000 ballots in Fulton County
With President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony less than two weeks away, the out-voted Trump on January 6 posted another baseless of voter fraud.
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With President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony less than two weeks away, out-voted US President Donald Trump on January 6 claimed that authorities found nearly ‘4,000 ballots’ from Fulton County in Georgia. As Congress set to certify Biden’s victory in all US states, Trump posted disputed claim about voter fraud which has also been labelled by Twitter. link attached to US President’s tweet directs to a p that says, “ evidence of widespre voter fraud in Georgia during US presidential election, state and federal officials say”. However, Trump wants Republicans to "fight" and "get smart".
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Earlier, during Georgia rally, Trump h hoped that vice president Mike Pence would “come through for us” and block Biden’s victory. As per reports, both Trump and Pence have been meeting with several lawyers and officials in recent days. Trump and Pence are trying to overturn results of vember 2020 presidential elections.
Pence will be presiding on Wednesday (local time) over a roll call of states and if even one senator and one House member raises an objection to results from a state, lawmakers can force a debate of nearly two hours about US Election 2020 results. debate would have to be followed by separate votes of each chamber certifying state’s results. However, since both House and Senate have to agree on doing same and house is controlled by Democrats, chances of that happening are close to null.
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Trump asks Georgia officials to ‘find’ votes
Furr, media reports also published Trump’s call with Georgia Secretary of State Br Raffensperger in which outgoing President urged officials to overturn results. In call, which has alrey 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 ded, “You should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican."
Even though Trump received widespre cheers on January 5, his pursuit of overturning election results is reportedly splitting republican party. While some GOP lawmakers are still fueling baseless claims of voter fraud and calling US Election 2020 “rigged”, all 10 living former defence secretaries wrote in an open letter that “ time for questioning results has passed.”
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12:53 IST, January 6th 2021