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1. One thing that's crucial to remember about Trump's attempt to pressure Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" is when that call happened. It did not happen, as many ppl seem to think, while Georgia was still counting or even re-counting votes.
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2. Instead, Trump's call to Raffensperger (during which he threatened him with criminal prosecution) happened on January 2. At that point, Georgia had already re-counted and hand-recounted all its votes, certified the election results, and its electoral votes had been cast.
3. There was, then, no vote-counting going on. There were no re-counts or audits left to do. The state had certified the election, and the electors had voted, in accordance with Georgia law and the Constitution. The election was done.
4. And yet, despite all that, Trump was pressuring the GA Secretary of State to find him one more vote than he needed to win. Trump was trying to overturn the election results not by working through the courts, but by threatening Raffensperger into finding him votes.
5. The Raffensperger call is a microcosm of Trump's entire approach in Dec./early January: instead of accepting defeat, he organized schemes and pressured people to do things they were not legally or constitutionally allowed to do, all in a desperate quest to cling to power.
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