Georgia Officials Rebuff Trump’s Call to Help Overturn Election

  • Lieutenant governor: Georgia won’t ‘move the goalposts’
  • Trump’s raucous rally stokes concern for state’s Senate races

Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, U.S., on, Dec. 5,

Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

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Georgia officials rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure them to reverse the state’s election result, a day after he repeated unfounded claims of voting fraud and berated the Republican governor and secretary of state.

Trump has suggested calling a special session of the Georgia legislature to consider overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state, a move that Governor Brian Kemp isn’t planning to make, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan said on Sunday.