Trump Pressured Canvassers in Wayne County Not to Certify 2020 Election Results: Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : McDaniel and Trump told the canvassers on the call that they could provide them with legal resources as well.
42% : "We've got to fight for our country," Trump told the canvassers on a Nov. 17, 2020 call that also included Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, according to the report.
36% : This isn't the first time Trump was caught attempting to coerce local officials across the country to change the election's outcome.
32% : Palmer confirmed to the Detroit News that she and Hartmann (who died in 2021) took the call with Trump, though she told the outlet she didn't remember the specifics of the call.
31% : During his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to not certify the election's results, according to phone recordings obtained by The Detroit News.
22% : A federal grand jury indicted Trump in August over his attempts to steal the election.
16% : Trump told them on the call that it would look "terrible" if they signed the certification after changing their minds on the certification, per the report.
14% : Beyond the call between Trump and the canvassers, earlier this year, Michigan's attorney general Dana Nessel brought criminal charges against 16 individuals over their efforts to change the 2020 election results by submitting a fake, alternate docket of pro-Trump electors.

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