# Trump Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Enough Votes to Overturn Election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 3, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592 "2021-01-03T20:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 247
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/247 "2021-01-05T04:53:58Z")
> [@agzem](#): > > The implication is that Trump wanted to “invent” or “create” votes that didn’t exist. Choose whatever descriptive word you want but there’s nothing to that claim. > [@Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2238): > > you set up a strawman to knock down instead of directly addressing any individual post > [@Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/2239): > > Yes, what was I thinking?. Clearly no one was alleging that Trump was trying to “ **invent** ” new votes. They were only suggesting that Trump wanted to {quote} **find** {/quote} votes which absolutely not suggesting that Trump wanted to “invent” votes and is completely different. So, @azgem is claiming that Trump, in using the word “find”, was most definitely _ **not** _ implying “invent”. Yet his defense to the charge of strawmanning is that people in this thread who simply used Trump’s own word “find” _ **are** _ obviously thereby implying invent? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592)._