Trump allegedly pressured Michigan election workers not to certify 2020 vote: Report
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Details have emerged from a previously unknown phone call that former President Donald Trump and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had with local Michigan election officials.
A Michigan newspaper is reporting what it says is a recording of a previously unknown phone call that former President Donald Trump and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had with two local Michigan election officials in the wake of the 2020 election in which the officials allegedly were being pushed to not certify President Joe Biden's win.
The new report from The Detroit News says that in the recording played for its reporters, that during the call, Trump reportedly personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
In the report's description of the phone call recording, which the Detroit News report says took place on Nov. 17, 2020, Trump allegedly told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, that they would look "terrible" if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition only to later -- in the same meeting -- vote to approve certification of the election results.
"We've got to fight for our country," the Detroit News reports Trump says on the recordings, which the newspaper reports was made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. "We can't let these people take our country away from us," the newspaper says Trump continued.
ABC News has not confirmed The Detroit News report and audio of the call has not yet been released.
