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President Biden on Friday credited Georgia officials with helping to "save our democracy" by standing up to pressure from former President Trump and his allies over the 2020 election.
Biden delivered remarks in Atlanta condemning violence and discrimination against the Asian American community after eight people, six of whom were Asian, were shot and killed there Tuesday evening. But he used the second half of his speech to credit Georgia with both securing his victory and delivering Democrats the majority in the Senate.
The president took a thinly veiled swipe at his predecessor, who spent weeks challenging Georgia's election results, making unproven claims of fraud and pressuring state officials to overturn the result.
"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated," Trump said in a January phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R).
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ecstatic
(32,653 posts)who folded to "2020 pressure" from lyin' lindsey and dump?
PJMcK
(21,998 posts)No state changed their vote totals after they were counted and certified.
I have no doubt that Trump tried everything he and his crew could think of but none of it worked.
Trump probably thought that Georgia was his best chance to change the vote total. It had a Republican-dominated state government and if Trump could flip one state, then he could challenge the results in other pivotal states.
Thankfully, there are some people who still understand the Constitution and American values who withstood Trump's corruption.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I dont trust the results out of either of those states. Trump cheated. Thats why he was so sure he would win. He just didnt cheat enough, and he definitely wasnt counting on a fair election in Georgia.
So, here we are.
-Laelth
Cha
(296,881 posts)that out, President Biden!