Despite the official certification from the Electoral College that Joe Biden has won the US Presidential Elections, incumbent Donald Trump is still keen on doing something to overturn the election result in his bid to serve another term in office. After a drastic defeat and strong refusal from the American people in giving another term to Trump, the Republican President has been unfolding his rhetoric and began intimidating the officials of the battleground states to 'find' votes in favor of him to overturn the election results. 

Donald Trump is two weeks away to leave the office and amid the process of the presidential transition, Trump has been setting a bad precedent and rolling out direct assaults on the democratic process by surfacing fictitious claims that the election was stolen from him and he has been refusing to concede the defeat and ever since he trailed in the polls, he began his operation of finding ways within and beyond his power to do something to overturn the results against US President-elect Joe Biden. 

Displaying him as a golfer in chief during the transition process, Trump has been unfolding his operation behind the screens to somehow retain the presidency. While he was carrying out one such operation, he has now been caught on tape when he was intimidating an official from Georgia to 'find' votes to overturn the results. On Sunday, The Washington Post had published the audio of the hour-long call between President Trump and Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which the President pressures to find votes in favor of him. 

The audio was from the phone call made on Saturday and Trump, with his rhetoric, intimidates Raffensperger to find enough votes to tilt the election results that favored Democratic Joe Biden. In his bid to prove to the country and to the world that he was defeated due to the widespread voter fraud, Trump demanded Raffensperger to declare him as the winner of Georgia in the presidential polls. On the call, Trump can be heard saying, "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated". 

Following Trump's statement, Brad Raffensperger shockingly replies by saying, "Well Mr.President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong". The call also had the presence of Georgia's Attorney and the call has come when some of the Republican Congressmen are planning to block the official certification of Biden's victory and it also has come at a high time when Georgia would vote for its two Senate seats. 

The audio clip, which is another testament of Trump's plan to create a mess around the transition, has drawn wider flak across the country with many voicing against Trump by branding his intimidation drive as a direct attack on democracy. According to Reuters, neither the White House nor Raffensperger's office offered any comments. Georgia was one of the key battleground states in the presidential elections which eventually declared Biden as the winner. 

After knowing the defeat, Trump had spread his false claims and launched legal battles to recount the votes in the battleground states after learning that these states are going out of his hands. He expected Georgia under the red column but eventually, Biden had flipped the state into blue after winning 20 electoral votes in Georgia. However, the republican ruling state had carried out three separate ballot counts and the final results of the recounts had revealed that Biden had won 11,779 more votes than Trump out of nearly 5 million votes cast. 

Despite the certification, Trump tried to overturn the elections for which Raffensperger said to the President that he has the wrong data in his hand. In the audio call, Raffensperger and his general counsel rejected Trump's assertions and informed the President that he was relying on debunked conspiracy theories spread on social media. Though Trump's bid to overturn the election results won't help him to retain the presidency, his intimidating phone call could possibly infuse criminal acts against him. 

The election-law experts and congressional Democrats are flaying the President for what they call a bold abuse of power. Senior Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer said on Twitter that if the Republicans wanted to investigate election fraud, they should start with Trump's call with Raffensperger. According to Reuters, ten former defense secretaries had written to Trump and urged him to concede the defeat. Trump is armed with his allies who have been flaying Raffensperger for not abiding by Trump's call.

When Trump's action of overturning the election results proved his stand of upholding rhetoric and authoritarianism over democracy, he would see all of his efforts go vain in 16 days as President-elect Joe Biden has a clear sight of the White House after winning 306 electoral college votes with 270 being the majority mark. Trump's bid to overturn the election results in Georgia would neither help him nor would take him close to the majority mark and with official certification, Joe Biden will be swearing-in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.