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...Several of the charges stem from his efforts to press top state officials to overturn Joe Biden’s narrow win in the state, including in a now infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary...
...In one of the most prominent examples, Trump called secretary of state Brad Raffensperger asking him to “find 11,780 votes” that would allow him to win in the state. Raffensperger did not comply....
...This included contemporaneous notes taken by then vice-president Mike Pence from a meeting on January 4, during which Trump allegedly made claims of election fraud such as “bottom line — [we] won every state...
...The most prominent aspect of those efforts was a call from Trump to Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger....
...Likewise the investigation of his recorded efforts to get Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to “find” him the 11,780 votes he needed to win, can only be explained by the fact that Fulton...
...Brian Kemp will seek a second term as Georgia governor after a convincing win over his main rival David Perdue, while Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, will remain the Republican candidate...
...Mike Pence’s name had been painted over, presumably by a Trump loyalist who believed the election was stolen and the former vice-president a coward or worse....
...Other US officials, at state level, such as Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, also did their duty, refusing to invent the extra votes that Trump was demanding....
...It is even possible that Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, who resisted Trump’s direct plea to “find” his missing votes, will also be re-elected....
...speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, to convene the legislature to probe election fraud allegations; and on former vice-president Mike Pence to reject results from states Biden had won....
...The US president repeated his unfounded allegations of voter fraud in the state and lashed out at Republican state officials, including Brian Kemp, Georgia’s governor, and Brad Raffensperger, the secretary...
...— and one begins to think about Pence and the death of the Republican party....
...This followed revelations of a taped call to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, in which he urged the Republican official to “find” the 11,780 votes he would need to win the state....
...Yet the role of Mike Pence, the vice-president, who must announce the result, remains disturbingly ambiguous....
...They focused in particular on his attempts to reverse the outcome in Georgia, including a now-infamous phone call between Trump and Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state....
...“If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.” On Capitol Hill, even some Trump loyalists were becoming outraged....
...Mr Pence, who has tested negative for the virus, will travel to Arizona for a campaign event on Thursday....
...Local estate agent Dawn Faletti, 55, agreed, saying: “This will be overturned and all of the fraud will be revealed and exposed, and [Mr Trump and Mr Pence] will win....
...Hargreaves, which came under fire during the period for its role in the Woodford crisis, raised its dividend by just over a third to 54.9 pence....
...Later this week, Mike Pence, vice-president, will head to Nantucket in Massachusetts for an outdoor donor event, where Covid-19 tests will be administered at the door....
...Trump campaign chairman Brad Parscale denied the Saturday night rally had been “trolled”, claiming the media had been “duped” by a “lame attempt at hacking”....
...Mike Pence, the US vice-president, met Mr DeSantis in Florida on Thursday to discuss the scale of the health crisis....
...Further selling of the pound versus the euro is seen paving the way for a test of $1.20 against the dollar, argues Brad Bechtel at Jefferies....
...The trust’s net asset value will sustain a hit of roughly 3.4 pence per share, representing a reduction of about 4 per cent from its NAV at the end of Thursday....
...Sterling is below $1.27 and near its nadir for the year against the dollar, while it’s nearing 89 pence versus the euro, a level seen in February....
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