* Kamala Harris ripped into President Trump during a campaign event in Savannah on Sunday
* It came hours after a leaked recording captured Trump pressuring Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to 'find' a way to overturn Joe Biden's win
* 'It was certainly the voice of desperation,' Harris said of Trump's plea
* 'And it was a bald, bald-faced, bold abuse of power by the president,' she added
* On the Saturday call Trump said: '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 the state'
* A recording of the phone conversation was obtained by The Washington Post
* Raffensperger told Trump that Biden's win in the Peach State is legitimate
* Biden's senior advisor said: 'We now have irrefutable proof of a president threatening an official of his own party to rescind a state's certified vote count'
* On Sunday the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer, tweeted that the call served as a 'confidential settlement discussion' of two lawsuits Trump had filed against Raffensperger
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned Trump's pressuring of Raffensberger, calling it an impeachable offense
Harris' rebuke followed a Washington Post report detailing the unprecedented hour-long call on Saturday, during which Trump berated Raffensperger and Gov Brian Kemp to do anything they could to change the outcome of the Georgia election.
'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 the state,' Trump told the officials, both of whom are Republicans.
On Sunday the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer, tweeted that the call served as a 'confidential settlement discussion' of two lawsuits Trump had filed against Raffensperger in state and federal court.
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Update #1: Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ him votes (AP)
Update #2: In recorded call, Trump pressures Georgia official to 'find' votes to overturn election (Reuters)
WNU Editor: This leaked conversation is heavily edited which explains why the main stream media is focusing on President Trump's remark to find 11,780 votes, but ignoring the case that he makes on why he believes there are thousands of Republican votes that have not been counted, and why tens of thousands of votes for Biden (especially in Fulton county) are questionable. President Trump's opening statement where he outlines why he believes the Georgia vote is fraudulent can be read here .... 'There's no way I lost': Read the transcript of Trump's extraordinary call pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn election results (Daily Mail).
The media is also ignoring why this phone call was made in the first place (see below).
The audio published by @TheWashingtonPost is heavily edited and omits the stipulation that all discussions were for the purpose of settling litigation and confidential under federal and state law.
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) January 3, 2021
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