The Republicans who stopped Trump becoming a dictator may not be able to do it again

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump told him on the call.
49% : "It's told by people who voted for Trump and really wanted him to get back in.
46% : Many are now seeing this as a clear warning that, unlike Pence, he would be prepared to go along with whatever Trump wants him to do.
44% : "At the time Trump and his campaign were pressuring local and state officials to bend to his will, his White House was in disarray.
43% : Once the Maricopa board had certified the results, Trump turned its attention to the legislature - specifically, Russell "Rusty" Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and former Trump surrogate.
42% : The documentary tracks in granular detail the efforts by Trump and his cronies to turn the screws on anyone who had any power over the counting or certification of votes.
42% : "But that being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues - and not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6."As Americans are less than two months away from another election that is too close to call, the documentary contains warnings from those who knew Trump best about what could come next.
41% : Trump needed to overturn just one of these states to change the result of the election, and Georgia was his last chance.
41% : As they had done in Arizona, Trump and his allies turned the pressure on the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature.
40% : In the days leading up to the certification on January 6, Trump repeatedly called on Pence to "do the right thing" by rejecting electoral votes.
39% : "I do not like bullies," Bowers says in the documentary, as he recounts a pivotal call from Trump on 22 November in which he "put the thumb" on him.
37% : In response, Trump set out to publicly tarnish and pressure the top election officials in the state, starting with Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.
37% : The audio of the call was recorded by Raffensperger's team and later became a key part of a state case brought against Trump for election interference that is still ongoing.
35% : There was no legal pathway for Trump to overturn the results in Georgia, but he kept trying.
34% : As far as Trump saw it, one man could change the course of the disaster he faced and give him what he desired: his loyal vice-president, Mike Pence.
32% : But Trump was not to be deterred.
31% : Trump had failed to pressure state and local election officials.
28% : But Trump and his campaign could not, and would not entertain for a second the reality that they had lost.
26% : Trump had positioned himself as the anti-establishment candidate, the destroyer of the deep state - it all fitted nicely into the victimhood narrative he had been building since day one.
25% : They were diehard supporters, arch-conservatives who loved his policies, and they're the people who tell us how close Trump came to sedition," he adds.
24% : The ever-loyal Pence met with his advisers and took outside advice from constitutional experts, but he simply could not see a legal way for him to do what Trump asked of him.
23% : "He's an enemy of the people," Trump said of Raffensperger, in a public press conference at the White House on 26 November 2020, amid his push in the state.
21% : The state performed an audit of its results, which showed Trump still lost by around 12,000 votes out of nearly 5 million cast.
7% : Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, describes a tense meeting with Trump in which the vice-president was pressured to reject the electoral votes being cast for Joe Biden and hand the White House to Trump in one fell swoop.

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