According to a report from Newsweek, during his infamous call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, former president Donald Trump encouraged him to overturn his state's election results and said that other states would be following suit.
During the call, which the Georgia Republican claimed felt threatening, Trump sought more votes that put him past the nearly 12,000 vote lead held by eventual winner President Joe Biden.
According to the report, the twice-impeached former president told Raffensperger, "There's turmoil in Georgia and other places," before adding, "You're not the only one, I mean. We have other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly."
Trump attempted to bolster his case by pointing out the size of his crowds at his rallies in Georgia, telling the Republican that it was "just not possible to have lost Georgia."
In his book "Integrity Counts," Raffensperger wrote, "Many of those people who attended the rallies came from other states. In the case of the rallies held during Georgia's Senate runoff, many people attended but didn't live in Georgia and couldn't vote in our runoff. So the attendance in those cases gives a misleading impression of actual Georgia voters."
As for Trump's election fraud claims, he told Newsweek, "There's no question that [former] President Trump did not win the state of Georgia. We looked down every avenue and every rabbit trail so we could say to people with confidence these are the results."
