The Washington Post on Sunday released audio from an hour-long Saturday phone call in which Trump repeatedly asks Raffensperger to find more than 11,000 ballots and hand the president a win against President-elect Joe Biden in the state. We now have irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind a state s lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in its place,” Biden senior adviser Bob Bauer said in a statement. “It captures the whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump s assault on American democracy.
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The phone call represents the first tangible proof that Trump himself has attempted to pressure a state official to change the results of the 2020 election.