Trump pressures Georgia governor to help overturn Joe Bidens win in the state

Incumbent President Donald Trump called Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Saturday, pressuring him to convince state legislators to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state, as per CNN inputs.

Trump asked Republican Kemp to call a special session and persuade state legislators to select their own electors that would support him, CNN reported. He also asked the governor to order an audit of absentee ballot signatures.

However, Kemp explained that such requests were out of his authority and denied the request to call a special session.

The White House declined to comment on the telephonic interaction, which was first reported by The Washington Post.

The President alluded to the call in a tweet on Saturday, attacking Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and called for a signature audit of the absentee ballot envelopes in the state.

Trump tweeted: “Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia, the Democrat Party could not be happier. They fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems (Democrats). If they were with us, we would have already won both Arizona and Georgia… ” 

In response to these allegations, the governor had earlier tweeted that he has already “publicly called for a signature audit three times” — leading Trump to then double down on his request for Kemp to call for a special session of the state’s Legislature.

Trump’s call to Kemp, his latest bid to overturn the 2020 election results, came hours before the President’s visit to the state to rally in support of Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler ahead of January’s Senate runoff elections.   

However, Trump’s repeated refusal to concede and his continued push of false claims of fraud in Georgia has made some Republicans uneasy and concerned, who worry that the President could depress turnout in the state’s crucial runoff elections which will determine the balance of power in the US Congress.

Biden won Georgia by more than 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the Peach State in nearly three decades.

On November 20, Kemp certified the results of President-elect’s, following a statewide audit, which included a hand-count of the nearly 5 million ballots cast in the election.

This is not the first time Trump has bashed the Georgia governor, Recently the President had tagged Kemp as a “moron” and a “nut job” during another phone call.