Thanks for working late to get that Michigan news into today’s newsletter for us. I just finished reading the News coverage. According to today’s front page story in the Detroit News, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is on tape helping 45 to pressure Michigan election officials not to sign the certification, saying "If you can go home tonight, d…
Thanks for working late to get that Michigan news into today’s newsletter for us. I just finished reading the News coverage. According to today’s front page story in the Detroit News, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is on tape helping 45 to pressure Michigan election officials not to sign the certification, saying "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys." If that recording is verified, I’m wondering how the RNC chair now dodges a conspiracy indictment.
Also, Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson put things into context via this tweet late Thursday after the Press story went up online: As this news unfolds it’s worth reminding that in 2020 Michigan was first among the battlegrounds to go in the certification calendar. Had Trump succeeded in delaying or preventing a county or statewide certification in Michigan, that precedent would have been used to delay or block certification in Pennsylvania (which was certifying the following week), Georgia and so on, paving the way for the false slate of electors. We knew we were the first domino to go and that what Michigan did would impact the others.
No one is saying that Trump had no right to contest the election results. Trump had every right to make sure all of the votes were counted properly. But Trump had no right to constantly make false charges and use that as the basis for overturning an election - and as the basis for bum rushing the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Michigan has already brought charges against the fake GOP electors for Trump. This would seem like something else for that state as well.
I had the same thought. Why now? Maybe the person with the tapes is under pressure in the Michigan electors case? I don't know. It just seems odd to be flushed out 3 years later.
Thanks for working late to get that Michigan news into today’s newsletter for us. I just finished reading the News coverage. According to today’s front page story in the Detroit News, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is on tape helping 45 to pressure Michigan election officials not to sign the certification, saying "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys." If that recording is verified, I’m wondering how the RNC chair now dodges a conspiracy indictment.
Also, Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson put things into context via this tweet late Thursday after the Press story went up online: As this news unfolds it’s worth reminding that in 2020 Michigan was first among the battlegrounds to go in the certification calendar. Had Trump succeeded in delaying or preventing a county or statewide certification in Michigan, that precedent would have been used to delay or block certification in Pennsylvania (which was certifying the following week), Georgia and so on, paving the way for the false slate of electors. We knew we were the first domino to go and that what Michigan did would impact the others.
No one is saying that Trump had no right to contest the election results. Trump had every right to make sure all of the votes were counted properly. But Trump had no right to constantly make false charges and use that as the basis for overturning an election - and as the basis for bum rushing the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Michigan has already brought charges against the fake GOP electors for Trump. This would seem like something else for that state as well.
It’s interesting that unlike Georgia, someone in Michigan sat on those tapes for a hell of a long time. The natural question as yet unanswered: why?
I had the same thought. Why now? Maybe the person with the tapes is under pressure in the Michigan electors case? I don't know. It just seems odd to be flushed out 3 years later.