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		</div><p>US President Donald Trump badgered and pleaded with Georgia’s election chief to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state, suggesting in a telephone call that the official “find” enough votes to hand Mr Trump the victory.</p>
<p>The conversation Saturday was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to pressure a state official to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost.</p>
<p>The renewed intervention and the persistent and unfounded claims of fraud by the first president to lose re-election in almost 30 years come nearly two weeks before Mr Trump leaves office and two days before twin runoffs in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate.</p>
<p>Mr Trump confirmed in a tweet Sunday that he had spoken to Georgia’s secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, who tweeted that claims Mr Trump made during the call were untrue.</p>
<p>Audio snippets of the conversation were posted online by The Washington Post. A recording of the call was later obtained by The Associated Press from a person who was on the call.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Respectfully, President Trump: What you&#39;re saying is not true. The truth will come out <a href="https://t.co/ViYjTSeRcC">https://t.co/ViYjTSeRcC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1345753643593687040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The president, who has refused to accept his loss to the Democratic president-elect, is heard telling Mr Raffensperger at one point: “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”</p>
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<p>Georgia certified election results showing that Mr Biden won the state’s November 3 election by 11,779 votes.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked the way Mr Raffensperger ran Georgia’s elections, claiming without evidence that the state’s 16 electoral votes were wrongly given to Mr Biden.</p>
<p>“He has no clue!” Mr Trump tweeted of Mr Raffensperger, saying the state official “was unwilling, or unable” to answer questions about a series of claims about ballot handling and voters that have been debunked or shot down by judges and election authorities.</p>
<p>Mr Raffensperger responded on Twitter: “Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying is not true. The truth will come out.”</p>
<p>There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country, as well as Mr Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed.</p>
<p>Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Mr Biden’s victory, have also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states.</p>
<p>Nearly all the legal challenges from Mr Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two thrown out by the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.</p>
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