Listen: Trump heard on tape urging state official to 'find' votes for him
President Donald Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state in an extraordinary phone conversation Saturday to "find" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the Southern state, news media reported Sunday.
The secretly taped conversation with fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, first reported by the Washington Post, includes threats that Raffensperger and another Georgia official could face "a big risk" if they failed to pursue his request.
"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry," Trump is heard saying on the tape, parts of which were aired by CNN.
"And there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you've recalculated," the president says. "You're off by hundreds of thousands of votes."
Raffensperger is heard responding: "Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong."
Biden won the long Republican-leaning state by fewer than 12,000 votes -- a margin unchanged after recounts and audits. None of Trump's allegations have been supported.
Even a hypothetical reversal there would not deprive Biden of victory.
Word of the recording came at an extraordinary juncture, two days before special runoff...