Kamala Harris Slams Trump’s Georgia Call as ‘The Voice of Desperation’ And ‘A Bald-Faced, Bold Abuse of Power’

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris had excoriating criticism of President Donald Trump on Sunday, in reaction to the president’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, calling it “the voice of desperation” and “a bald-faced, bold abuse of power.”

CNN’s Ana Cabrera played a video clip of Harris speaking in Georgia, where the vice president-elect was campaigning for Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who are challenging the state’s Republican incumbents, Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, in runoff elections set for January 5.

Harris, as Cabrera noted, is positioned to wield enormous influence if Ossoff and Warnock prevail this week, because power in the Senate would be divided evenly between the parties and the vice president is a tiebreaker in that situation. With the House narrowly controlled by Democrats, a victory in Georgia would effectively give Democrats control over the White House and both chambers of Congress — and therefore far more power to enact their agenda.

“Have y’all heard about that recorded conversation?” Harris said. “Well, it was — yes certainly — the voice of desperation. Most certainly that. And it was a bald — bald-faced, bold abuse of power by the President of the United States.”

Watch the video clip above, via CNN.

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