Closer look: How Trump dominated phone call pressuring Georgia election officials
President Donald Trump pushed the Georgia secretary of state Saturday to "find" enough votes to reverse his Nov. 3 election loss in Georgia in an hour-long recorded phone call that caused a political uproar after it was made public Sunday.
A transcript and audio recording of the call to Brad Raffensperger was released by The Washington Post two days before two crucial Georgia runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate and three days before Congress is scheduled to certify electoral results.
Democrats in the House of Representatives said Monday that they would draft a resolution to censure Trump. It's also possible Trump could face criminal charges for the call.
It is not known who recorded the conversation or released it.
Certified Georgia election totals show President-elect Joe Biden won the state by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million votes cast. Ballots were counted three times, once by hand.
A USA TODAY fact-checking review of Trump's claims found a number of falsehoods during the call, which was dominated by the president.
Who participated?
Eight people were identified as being on the call, but only six spoke:
President Donald Trump
Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff
Cleta Mitchell, conservative attorney and partner with Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C.
Kurt Hilbert, Georgia attorney; managing member of Hilbert Law in Roswell, Georgia
Alex (last name unknown), a Trump attorney mentioned by Meadows at beginning of the call; did not speak
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia secretary of state
Ryan Germany, general counsel for Georgia secretary of state
Jordan Fuchs, Georgia deputy secretary of state; did not speak
Who talked the most?
The phone call lasted 62 minutes and had a word count of about 9,679, according to a USA TODAY analysis of a transcript provided by The Post. Of those words, 7,102 were from Trump, who dominated the conversation with 73% of speaking time. A look at who spoke and for how long.
In minutes ...
... and in words
Trump, Meadows and Trump's two attorneys spoke seven times as much during the call as the two Georgia state officials.
The phone call came 60 days after the election and 18 days before Biden's inauguration.
SOURCE USA TODAY Network reporting and research; transcript from The Washington Post
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump pressured Georgia election officials to find him more votes
