‘Clearly Powerful Evidence’: CNN Reporter Breaks Down New Audio of Trump Pressuring Election Workers Not to Certify Results

CNN reporter Marshall Cohen broke down the “clearly powerful evidence” of former President Donald Trump seemingly pressuring two Republican canvassers in Michigan not to certify the 2020 election, Thursday.

After The Detroit News published quotes from a November 2020 phone call, where Trump and Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reportedly pressured two canvassers not to certify the results of the election, Cohen said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360:

He was peddling false claims, trying to twist their arm, trying to convince them not to certify. It worked. They tried to take back their votes to decertify, but it was too late. They had already set the certification process into motion, and of course Trump couldn’t undo it once he lost.

Cohen warned, “He’s feeling pretty good about his standing in the polls now, but he could lose, and if he does lose, he might try to overturn it again,” before adding:

It’s not clear if Jack Smith has this tape. He probably does, or he might, because he had such a wide reaching investigation, but it’s clearly powerful evidence, Trump’s own voice, and it fits a pattern. As you mentioned in the top, Pam, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, one state after another trying to twist people’s arms, pressure them to break their oaths to the Constitution, pressure them to overturn results of a lawful election.

CNN anchor Pamela Brown replied, “Yeah, and for context for our viewers, Trump would have had to have three states flip. Three states that had voted for Biden legally, he would have had to have three states flip in order for him to actually win unlawfully, and so that’s important context as you look at the pattern around these phone calls in these various states.”

On the Trump campaign’s response to the audio recording, Cohen said, “It’s pretty incredible that they put out a response so quickly. Clearly this is something that has rattled them.”

Watch above via CNN.