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Trump Called Mich. GOP Officials Who Asked to Rescind County Election Certification Vote
Two Republican members of the Wayne County, Michigan, board of canvassers who initially refused to certify the county's vote before reversing themselves spoke with President Donald Trump Tuesday evening, a day before then rescinded their decision again.
Monica Palmer told NBC News that she and her GOP counterpart, William Hartmann, were contacted by Trump, but did not discuss their decision to rescind the vote “or anything like that.”
“My conversation with the President was about threats coming from the public and my safety — not about rescinding my vote,” Palmer told NBC.
Palmer and Hartmann voted in favor of certifying Joe Biden's local landslide before reverting to their initial stance of refusing to bless the vote tally. They said they only voted to certify the results after “hours of sustained pressure" and after getting promises that their concerns about the election would be investigated.
State officials said the certification of the Detroit-area vote will stand. Michigan's chief election officer said a post-election audit will be performed, though not to check “mythical allegations” of fraud.
Meanwhile, Trump summoned Michigan's Republican legislative leaders to the White House for a meeting Friday amid a longshot GOP push to overturn the certification of Biden's victory in the battleground state,
NBC News reports. Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield agreed to go, according to a state official aware of the leaders’ plans. It was not immediately clear what the meeting would be about. Neither Shirkey nor Chatfield commented.
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