# Warnings in Politics & Elections

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**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-in-politics-elections/929717 "2021-01-05T16:09:50Z")\
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Furthermore, I would disagree with the moderators that **azgem** was debunking a claim “no one had made.”

**Czarcasm** had posted earlier in that thread a quote from the Washington Post:

> [@Trump Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Enough Votes to Overturn Election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/929592/2):
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> From the Washington Post: “The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, _ **begged him to act** _ and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.

So even if no Doper used the words “beg” but rather, quoted a source saying that Trump had “begged,” the claim **was** being made in the thread and in the media.

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