Kemp said he had been playing phone tag with vice-president Kamala Harris, but also said: “The president just called me yesterday afternoon and he just said: ‘Hey, what do you need?’ … He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly, which, I appreciate that.”

Trump visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia and makes false claims about Biden

The ex-president said Brian Kemp, the state governor, was trying to reach the president who was ‘sleeping’, in vain