January 1, Georgia secretary of state says Trump ‘had no idea how elections work’

In Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s (R) new book, he details a January phone call with then-President Donald Trump, urging Raffensperger to “find” enough votes for Trump to win the state’s electoral college votes.

The new book, Integrity Counts, includes a 40-page transcript of the phone call.

“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break,” Trump told Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, the general counsel to the secretary of state.

“This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes,” Raffensperger wrote in an annotation of the call.

“At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?” Raffensperger told The Hill. “As a conservative-with-a-capital-C Republican, I’m disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”

“I wanted to respond to him respectfully, but also let him know in no uncertain terms that what he just said was not supported by the facts,” Raffensperger said. “Every single allegation that he made in that call and every allegation that his surrogates made, we ran those down and they were not supported by the facts.”

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Georgia secretary of state: Trump ‘had no idea how elections work’