Recording reveals Trump pressured Michigan officials not to certify 2020 vote, report says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : As such, it was one of the key places Trump focused on in the weeks after Election Day in 2020.
50% : ""President Trump and the American people have the Constitutional right to free and fair elections," Cheung said.
49% : The new disclosure of the recording appears to add details to communications with local officials referenced in the Jan. 6 committee's final report on Trump's actions after the 2020 election and leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on the day that Congress convened to ratify the Electoral College results.
46% : "We've got to fight for our country," Trump said on the recordings, according to The News.
45% : That congressional report states that Trump and McDaniel called Palmer and Hartmann "about 20 minutes after" the two officials had changed their initial votes and agreed to certify the results.
42% : The Michigan call would have occurred about six weeks before another call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
41% : "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump told Raffensperger in that call.
38% : Trump instead spent the interview clarifying his remarks earlier this month that he had "day one" plans akin to being a "dictator. "
38% : "The Select Committee doesn't know what President Trump privately said on that phone call," the report states.
37% : "These are the papers," Trump says in a moment that seems to indicate he's holding a secret Pentagon document.
36% : "Trump is said to have reinforced the point, assuring the local officials: "We'll take care of that.
34% : Asked directly on Friday whether he would rule as an authoritarian, Trump responded: "Not at all.
33% : The report comes as Trump seeks the 2024 Republican nomination while grappling with multiple criminal indictments, including a federal case and a Georgia case tied to his efforts to overturn Biden's victory.
32% : I never read his works," Trump told Hewitt.
30% : Donald Trump pressured two election officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county, according to a recording of a postelection phone call disclosed in a new report by The Detroit News.
29% : Despite those denials, Trump insisted confidently that Hitler "didn't say it the way I said it.
26% : Trump has consistently repeated falsehoods about the 2020 election as he runs again for the White House.
26% : Trump sat Friday for a lengthy interview on conservative radio but host Hugh Hewitt did not ask about the Michigan report.
26% : "Hewitt did ask whether Trump, if he were elected to another term, would willingly cede power when it concluded and he was constitutionally barred from holding office any longer.
26% : In that case, prosecutors allege that in a July 2021 interview, Trump showed people, who were working on a book about his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, classified information about a Pentagon plan of attack on an unspecified foreign country.
24% : "Trump also doubled down on previous comments that people entering the United States illegally are "poisoning the blood of our country."
21% : A recording of Trump is also at issue in a Florida-based federal case accusing the former president of mishandling classified information after leaving the White House.
15% : As he campaigns for a return to the White House, Trump continues to repeat the lies that the 2020 election was stolen, despite multiple recounts and court cases confirming his defeat.
14% : Trump told the two canvassers that they would look "terrible" if they certified results after having initially opposed certification, the newspaper said.

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