Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger Declares Again: Trump Didn’t Have the Votes

Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger clarified late Thursday that Donald Trump definitely did not win the 2020 vote for president in his state, despite what the former president insisted yet again on CNN's town hall the previous night.

Trump's post-election phone call to Raffensperger's office telling him to "find" enough votes for him to make him a winner after the fact was recorded by Raffensperger's office.

"Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break," Trump told Raffensperger and his office's general counsel in the recording.

Raffensperger told Trump the vote count had been checked and rechecked and it was legitimate.

He told Kaitlan Collins on CNN that the state has even "more data points that just show that President Trump did come up short."

A key factor was that thousands of Republicans who voted did not vote for Trump, he noted.  

"We know 24,000 voters skipped the presidential race. They didn't vote for the candidates for president, yet they voted down-ballot in the other races," Raffensperger added. 

Joseph Biden beat Trump in the state by just under 12,000 votes.

When Collins asked Trump at the town hall why he asked Raffensperger for votes, he denied it. When Collins reminded him that it was on tape, Trump responded: "I said, 'You owe me votes because the election was rigged.'"

The former president said he would make the same call today.

"Well, if he did, he'd get the same answer," Raffensperger told Collins.

The phone call to Raffensperger is part of the ongoing investigation into Trump by Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Check out Raffensperger's interview in the video below.