He privately told Republicans to "stay focused on Georgia" even as Trump claimed he could overturn the presidential election."I've been calling folks in those states and they're with us," Trump boasted to senators in a December 2020 call.
Even as then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell avoided discussing his concerns about former President Donald Trump's baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen or fraudulent, he privately worried that Trump would cost their party control of the Senate by derailing two Georgia Republicans' run-off campaigns.
That's according to new details from "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future,"a forthcoming book from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, that were reported by CNN on Wednesday.
Trump reportedly told McConnell and other Republican senators in a December 2020 call that he'd personally been told by state officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan that they would take steps to keep him in power.
"I've been calling folks in those states and they're with us," Trump told the senators on the call, per Martin and Burns. He also reportedly believed that if he could pressure Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to de-certify President Joe Biden's election victory in Georgia, then other states would follow suit in a "domino effect."
That would've flippedBiden's 306-232 electoral college victory to a 284-254 victory for Trump, keeping him in the White House for a second term.
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