‘American Idol’ Runner-Up Clay Aiken Takes Jab At Trump Over GA Election Tapes: I Wanted To Find Votes Too

hollywoodlife.com:

If there’s something Clay Aiken has in common with Donald Trump, it’s knowing that he was once just a few thousand votes away from winning the biggest competition of his life.

Clay, 42, mocked the president on Twitter after hearing his ill-fated phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he begged him to “find” him more votes. “I had pretty much the same call with ‘Idol’ back in 2003,” Clay tweeted. “‘I just want to find 11,780 votes!’ Didn’t work for me either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #TrumpTapes.” Here’s the difference: Clay was just trying to beat Ruben Studdard to win season two of American Idol.

Trump was attempting to fraudulently overturn the 2020 presidential election by berating and threatening an elected official