Rove: RNC Chair 'In Trouble' Over 'Highly Inappropriate' Call With Trump
Ronna McDaniel
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel “is in trouble” after she was recorded on a phone call with former president Donald Trump pressuring two Michigan electors to change their votes certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to GOP strategist Karl Rove.
Speaking with Fox News’ John Roberts, Rove was asked about recent reporting from the Detroit News about “a recorded phone conversation between former President Donald Trump, the RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and two Wayne County Board of Election officials.”
Roberts notes the Detroit News reporters described a conversation “about certifying the 2020 presidential election,” in which Trump is quoted “as saying ‘We’ve got to fight for our country. We can’t let these people take our country away from us.'"
In the recording, McDaniel tells the election workers, “If you can go home tonight do not sign it, we will get you attorneys.”
“We will take care of that,” Trump adds, according to the Detroit News.
The election workers subsequently “tried to rescind their votes,” Roberts notes.
“I think the former president’s got a problem with this,” Rove said. “They had voted to certify the election, he attempted to force them to change their decision, which they tried to do. I think this is what we would call ‘election interference.’”
Rove noted that same behavior got Trump “into trouble in Georgia.”
“This is a problem, the former president should not have been doing this,” Rove said.
“This is not a good move if accurate and if this tape is true,” he added. “The former president’s created another problem for himself.”
Asked if it creates “a problem for Ronna McDaniel,” Rove said the RNC chair could be in hot water because of the leaked phone call.
“I think it is, I think the chairman is in trouble here,” Rove said, calling the conversation “highly inappropriate.”
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