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George Conway: Georgia call shows Trump is 'delusional’

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 US President Donald Trump arrives for the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)

US attorney George Conway, the husband of former Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, has said that a newly revealed phone call between Trump and Georgia's secretary of state indicates that the president is “delusional."

Trump reportedly told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, that he needs to “find 11,780 votes,” to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to former Vice President Joe Biden.

“The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated," Trump told Brad Raffensperger, according to audio of a phone call released on Sunday. 

Trump has so far refused to concede defeat against Biden.

Conway said on Monday Trump is "desperate” during his final days in the White House.

“It’s shocking, but not surprising,” Conway told MSNBC. “The real question that pops up here, and pops up again and again, is how delusional is he? Is he that delusional or is this — or is he just desperate, and I think it’s a little bit of both.”

On the call Trump is heard pressuring Raffensperger to "find" enough ballots to swing the state into his favor.

"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated," Trump tells Raffensperger on the call. "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."

Trump has said Biden “won” the presidential election on November 3 because the vote was "rigged."

“He won because the election was rigged. No vote watchers or observers allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!” Trump tweeted.


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