Vox Sentences - Trump: Find me 11,780 more votes!

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Tonight's Sentences was written by Benjamin Rosenberg.

• In the latest of President Donald Trump’s futile attempts to overturn the results of the November election, Trump said on a recorded phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that he wanted him to “find” more than 11,000 votes to flip the state into his hands. [Washington Post / Amy Gardner]
• President-elect Joe Biden carried Georgia by 11,779 votes, the first time a Democrat has won the state since Bill Clinton in 1992. Of course, Georgia alone wouldn’t deliver the presidency to Trump because Biden had secured the necessary 270 electoral votes before Georgia was called. [CNN / Jason Morris, Chandelis Duster, and Devan Cole]
• Raffensperger, a Republican who said he voted for the president, has held to his principles of election integrity throughout the post-election process. Georgia did a recount of its votes in early December, and Biden’s narrow win in the state was upheld. [NPR / Stephen Fowler]
• The Washington Post published the full audio from the call, which lasted just over an hour. Trump tweeted on Sunday morning that Raffensperger was “unable, or unwilling, to answer questions” related to various baseless claims surrounding election fraud. [Vox / Cameron Peters]
• Georgia counted its votes three times in total before certifying Biden’s victory. Raffensperger said as much on the call, telling the president, “we’ve had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions. We don’t agree that you have won.” [AP / Jeff Amy, Darlene Superville, and Kate Brumback]
• Raffensperger said after the call that he doesn’t believe it was appropriate for Trump to speak with him about election results, especially while the president's ongoing lawsuits over the Georgia results are ongoing. He added that White House staff pushed for the call and that Trump did most of the talking. [NBC News / Rebecca Shabad]
• The timing of the call is interesting considering the two US Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Tuesday that could determine the Senate majority. Both Trump and Biden are campaigning in Georgia on Monday. [Washington Post / John Wagner and Paulina Firozi]
• Sen. David Perdue, running for reelection against Jon Ossoff, said it was “disgusting” for Raffensperger to record the call with Trump. He and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, running against Rev. Raphael Warnock, have both aligned themselves closely with the president. [Politico / Nick Niedźwiadek]