Dear Friend,

Donald Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state to overturn
certified election results in a shocking phone call on Saturday.^1

The media is minimizing it, but let’s call it what it is: an attempted
coup.

Let’s be ultra clear: It doesn’t matter that Georgia Secretary of State
Brad Raffensperger rejected Trump’s demands, or that Trump will likely
fail. We cannot set a precedent of a president getting away with trying to
strong-arm a state into overturning election results.

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What we heard on the tape of the phone call between Trump and
Raffensperger is unprecedented.

It’s not just that Trump lied over and over again, claiming that thousands
of votes were recorded from dead people, hundreds of thousands of votes
were shredded, thousands of people from outside Georgia voted.^2

After Raffensperger and the Georgia state attorney on the call refuted
each of Trump’s lies, Trump turned to threats, attacking Stacey Abrams'
extraordinary voter turnout effort and making legal threats toward
Raffensperger. He said if Raffensperger didn’t release confidential voter
information that is protected by law, he would publicly insinuate that
Raffensperger is hiding fraud.^3

Trump kept saying, “I need to find 11,780 votes”—enough to overturn the
Georgia results. No matter that the tally has been certified, no fraud has
been found, and that states have full constitutional power to handle their
own elections. Trump is intent on getting the results he wants, no matter
who he has to hurt or what lie he has to tell, like a presidential mafia
boss.

As renowned journalist Carl Bernstein said, Trump’s actions over the
weekend are "far worse than Watergate.”^4 Even if Trump fails in this
effort, if Congress lets him get away with this attempt, others will
challenge, twist, attack, and undermine free and fair elections based on
this terrible precedent.

Congress must move immediately to impeach Trump and hold him accountable
for his terrible abuse of power, and more than 40,000 Demand Progress
members have already emailed their representatives in just 24 hours.
Please help us send a strong message that America won’t stand for Trump’s
efforts to overturn the election.

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Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. The Washington Post, "‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In
extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state
to recalculate the vote in his favor," [ [link removed] ]January 3, 2020
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Business Insider, "Carl Bernstein says Trump's call asking a Georgia
official to help him overturn Biden's win is 'far worse' than Watergate,"
[ [link removed] ]January 4, 2020
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