The public is expected to see on Thursday portions of a report by a special grand jury that investigated whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
of South Carolina. Top Georgia officials, such as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, also appeared before the panel.won the November 2020 election, seemed particularly bothered by his loss in Georgia and what he saw as a failure of Republican state elected officials to fight for him. Long a reliably Republican-voting state, Georgia tipped to Biden by a margin of about 12,000 votes, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win there since 1992.
in which Trump suggested to Raffensperger that he could “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss in the state. “All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said during that call. “Because we won the state.” Trump has said repeatedly that his call with Raffensperger was “perfect,” and he told the AP last month that he felt “very confident” that he would not be indicted.Based on witnesses called to testify before the special grand jury, it is clear that Willis is also focusing on several other areas. Those included:— A group of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020that Trump had won the state and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
— False allegations of election fraud made during meetings of state legislators at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020.
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