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According to a report, the incumbent US President Donald Trump has insisted on a subsequent change in the election result in the state of Georgia in an unusual phone call.

In a recording of a telephone conversation on Saturday with the Secretary of State of the state Brad Raffensperger, which the "Washington Post" published, Trump again sowed doubts about the outcome of the vote.

It is impossible that he "lost in Georgia".

Georgia’s chief electoral officer had previously confirmed Biden’s victory in the November election several times.

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Trump asked his Republican party colleague Raffensperger to recount.

"All I want to do is this: I want to find 11,780 votes," says Trump.

The newspaper interprets this as possibly illegal exertion of pressure with the aim of manipulating the election.

Because Trump also vaguely threatens Raffensperger that the Secretary of State is committing a crime.

“It's a big risk,” he claims.

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Raffensperger holds against it in the recording.

"The problem you have is that the data you have is wrong," the state home secretary said.

“We have to stand by our numbers.

We believe our numbers are correct. ”Raffensperger pointed out that the results would have passed in court.

The Washington Post article stated that Trump's “rambling and sometimes incoherent conversation” showed how “obsessed and desperate” the president was in the face of his electoral defeat.

In Georgia, runoff elections for two Senate seats will also take place on Tuesday, the result of which could overturn the majority of Republicans in the Washington House of Parliament.

As things stand, the Republicans have 50 seats in the Senate and the Democrats 48. The Republicans in Georgia only have to win one of the two elections to continue to have a majority in the powerful Congress Chamber.

If the Democrats win both seats, there will be a stalemate in the Senate - and in the event of a vote, the future Vice President Kamala Harris, who by virtue of her office is also Senate President, has the decisive factor with her vote.