votes to find. we had checked out all the allegations so we knew we had the right results. reporter: raffensperger refused to budge. mr. president, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. reporter: by this point, raffensperger had overseen three separate ballot counts, conducting many other reviews of the process, and investigated more than 250 claims of voter fraud. the fact remained trump had lost the state of georgia. all i knew is we had to lean into the law and into the facts, and we had both on our side. then-president donald trump made phone calls to a handful of elected officials in georgia in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. he called francis watson who was then an investigator in the secretary of state s office. the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. they know i won won by hundreds of thousands of votes, it wasn t close. whatever you can do, francis, it
reporter: 11, 780. the exact number of votes that trump needed to win georgia. how are you taking this in? i realize there weren t the votes to find. we had checked out all the allegations so we knew we had the right results. reporter: raffensperger refused to budge. the challenge that you have is that the data you have is wrong. reporter: by this point raffensperger had overseen three different ballot counts and investigated more than 250 claims of voters fraud. the fact remained, trump had lost the state of georgia. all i knew is that we had to lean into the law and into the facts. and we had both on our side. then president donald trump made phone calls to a handful of elected officials in georgia in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. he called francis watson who was an investigator in the secretary
well, i realized there weren t the votes to find. we had checked out all the allegations. so we knew that we had the right results. reporter: raffensperger refused to budge. well, mr. president, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. reporter: by this point raffensperger had overseen three separate ballot counts, conducted many other reviews of the process, and investigated more than 250 claims of voter fraud. the fact remained, trump had lost the state of georgia. all i knew is we had to lean into the law and into the facts. and we had both on our side. then president donald trump made phone calls to a handful of elected officials in georgia in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. he called frances watson, who was then an investigator in the secretary of state s office. the people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. they know i won, won by hundreds of thousands of votes.
washington, we ve seen it everywhere. also, look at this, we are talking about the george 2020 election. you ve got people like brian kemp, the governor, among others which is interesting to georgia because we are not talking about the talking point of democrats who are trying to undermine donald trump. raffensperger, jeff duncan, obviously brian kemp, all republicans and conservatives warns at that. look at this, he is coming out to suggest that this was not a stolen election by any stretch of the imagination. look at these numbers, you ve got three separate ballot counts that are actually confirmed that biden won by there is the magic number 11,780. the size of the lead here is significant in these key areas. what does it tell you about the fact that you ve got these data points and yet this statement? the president is gonna continue to assert that he won the election, he should be an office today, and georgia is a part of that. he has made that point consistently, he has not d
you know what they did, and you re not reporting it. that s you know, that s a criminal that s a criminal offense. and you know, you can t let that happen. that s a big risk to you and reporter: and then there s this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. reporter: 11,780. the exact number of votes trump needed to win georgia. how are you taking this in? well, i realized there weren t the votes to find. we had checked out all the allegations, so we knew that we had the right results. reporter: raffensperger refused to budge. well, mr. president, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. reporter: by this point, raffensperger had overseen three separate ballot counts, conducted many other reviews of the process, and investigated more than 250 claims of voter