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'A bald-faced, bold abuse of power': Kamala Harris slams Trump's phone call urging Georgia GOP official to overturn the election

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during a drive-in rally at Garden City Stadium on January 03, 2021 in Savannah, Georgia.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump for pressuring a Georgia official to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

of a roughly hour-long phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that took place on Saturday afternoon.Raffensperger, a Republican, to "find" 11,779 more votes that would help the president win Georgia's 2020 presidential race. President-elect Joe Biden carried the state by nearly 12,000 votes.

"You elected Joe Biden president of the United States. You elected the first black woman in the history of our country to be the vice president of the United States," Harris said on Sunday. "And they have the gall to suggest you didn't know what you were doing, you must've gone about it in a way that was illegitimate."

 

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