Former President Donald Trump was caught — once again — trying to bend 2020 election results back into his favor. This time, the call was made to Michigan election canvassers, and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel was on the line. But Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist, pointedly remarked that while there were avenues to take to investigate an election, “this is not how you do it.”
The news of the audio of the call, which was broken by The Detroit News late on Thursday, and the quotes illustrate another alleged pressure campaign by the former president to disrupt the certification of Michigan’s election. In the published quotes from the call that took place on November 17, 2020, Trump tells election canvassers Monica Palmer and William Hartmann that they’d look “terrible” if they voted to certify the state’s general election results after initially opposing them, and later told them: “We’ve got to fight for our country. We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”
McDaniel also promised them that they’d have legal protection: “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it… We will get you attorneys.” Trump then chimed in: “We’ll take care of that.”
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan spoke to guests Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast and commentator Stewart, asking her what she thought about the exchange. Stewart did not hold back:
Look, clearly Donald Trump and Ronna McDaniel didn’t like the outcome in Wayne County. And according to Ronna McDaniel, she felt as though there was reason to have an inquiry. But this is not how you do it. You don’t get the President of the United States on the line with people at that level and try and intimidate them and pressure them to not signing off on them.
Stewart then flexed her cred for good measure:
I have been Deputy Secretary of State [in Arkansas]. I have overseen elections at the state level. I know how it works. And I support the Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, who has confidence in how they handled this.
And look, this just goes to show, yet again, that regardless of the outcome of these elections, we can look back at the people that are running these elections and certifying these elections, doing the right thing, and fortunately not being pressured by anyone, including the President of the United States, to try and change the outcome.
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