McCarthy Defends President Trump’s Comments On Leaked Phone Call

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared on “Fox & Friends” Monday and responded to a conversation between President Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During the call, Trump insisted that he won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election and urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes needed to reverse the state’s results.

The president reportedly said, “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

Georgia certified election results show that President-elect Joe Biden won the state by 11,779 votes.

“We have to make sure that our elections are accountable, have integrity, and are safe,” said McCarthy. “The president’s always been concerned about the integrity of the election and the president believes that there are things that happened in Georgia, and he wants to see the accountability for it.”

“Does anybody in America think the last election was done well?” he added while noting that some races in New York have still not been called.

“What has happened here in this last election because of COVID, people just sending ballots out to anyone who’s on the rolls. These rolls have not been cleaned up,” McCarthy said and pointed out that “this isn’t the first time this has happened.”

“If we really want to unite this nation, that’s what the house should be doing and the Senate,” he continued. “This should never happen again in the future.”

Representatives Jim Jordan and Mo Brooks are leading a group of Republicans to object to the certification of the presidential election results. Saturday night House Republicans held a rare conference to discuss their goal of overturning several states’ Electoral College results this week.

Brooks said 50 people were apart of the conference call including Jordan, Trump, and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. He added that congressional members on the call represented only “some” of those in Congress who support challenging the results of the Electoral College.