‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What President Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn his election defeat sounds like. And, a nursing home’s creative solution to physical isolation.

Amy Gardner explains why Trump’s latest phone call to Georgia officials has legal scholars crying foul.

And as the nation keeps a close eye on Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff elections, it’s a good time to revisit Post Reports’ deep dive into the real — and perceived — voter suppression in the state.

And, after months of isolation, a “hug room” in Italy lets nursing home residents touch their families for the first time, reports Chico Harlan.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post, Oli.
0:09.0	How are you?
0:10.0	He there.
0:11.0	It's Simon from the Post.
0:12.0	Hey, it's Dave Farrant from the Post.
0:13.0	Have you got a seat?
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.0	It's Monday, January 4.
0:24.0	Today, a remarkable recording of the president's post election pressure campaign.
0:29.0	And the simple genius of a hug room.
0:36.0	So the president has been trying to talk to Brad Raffinsberger, the Republican Secretary of State in Georgia, for weeks and weeks and weeks.
0:50.0	And Raffinsberger has not taken those calls.
0:53.0	So he finally took a call from him on Saturday afternoon, around three o'clock.
0:58.0	Hello, Brad and Ryan, and everybody.
1:00.0	We appreciate the time and the call.
1:02.0	And he wanted to talk to him about how he could win the state.
1:07.0	This wasn't just a routine call to state lawmakers.
1:10.0	In fact, President Trump called the Secretary of State in Georgia to see if he could find enough votes to overturn his defeat.
1:18.0	National political reporter Amy Gardner covers voting issues, and she received a recording of the call from a source.
1:25.0	Everybody on the call was either in DC, Georgia, where several of the, all of the folks from the Secretary of State's office were in Georgia.
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