“What are they hiding? At least immediately ask for a Special Session of the Legislature. “Your people are refusing to do what you ask,” he complained, as if speaking with Kemp. Trump vented his frustrations on Twitter after the call. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorĪccording to a tweet from the governor, Trump also asked him to order an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in his state, a step Kemp is not empowered to take because he has no authority to interfere in the electoral process on Trump’s behalf. A person close to the White House who was briefed on the matter verified that account of the call. Hours before the event, Trump asked Kemp in the phone call to order the legislative session the governor refused, according to a senior government official in Georgia with knowledge of the call who was not authorized to discuss the private conversation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. 5.īut it remained an open question whether his first postelection political rally would be a mission to help his party or himself.
Brian Kemp spoke by phone hours before Trump was to appear at a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, where Republicans hoped the president would dedicate his energy to imploring their supporters to vote in two runoff elections Jan. President Donald Trump fruitlessly pressed Georgia’s governor on Saturday to call a special legislative session aimed at subverting the presidential election results in that state as Trump’s fixation with his defeat overshadowed his party’s campaign to save its majority in the Senate.
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