2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “You know, one of the things that happened, Brad, is we have other people coming in now from Alabama and from South Carolina and from other states, and they’re saying it’s impossible for you to have lost Georgia. We won…
And I could tell you by our rallies. I could tell you by the rally I’m having on Monday night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It’s just not possible to have lost Georgia. It’s not possible. When I heard it was close, I said there’s no way…
And the people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you’ve recalculated. Because the 2,236 in absentee ballots. I mean, they’re all exact numbers that were done by accounting firms, law firms, etc. And even if you cut ’em in half, cut ’em in half and cut ’em in half again, it’s more votes than we need.”
[Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.”]
-Donald Trump in a transcript of a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call with Georgia election officials, “Here’s the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger,” washingtonpost.com, Jan. 3, 2021