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– I know that President Trump won the election here, I am absolutely sure. Shady things have happened at the Detroit polls. Tens of thousands of votes have come out of nowhere in the middle of the night, which is why we have these voting machines used to cheat.
Genevieve Peters is one of many Trump supporters who have gathered outside the state convention in Michigan’s capital Lansing. With her is a wheelbarrow full of letters from voters demanding that the result of the elections not be approved.
The election result in Georgia was confirmed on Thursday, nearly three weeks after the US presidential election, after all votes had been recalculated by hand.
Now Michigan another state that Biden won has come into focus. In Lansing, groups of Trump supporters like Genevieve Peters meet every day to make their voices heard.
They repeat all the conspiracy theories circulating on social media and transmitted by the president, his lawyers and people in his inner circle.
Because despite the clear result of the elections, with an overwhelming 157,000 votes for Biden, Trump has chosen to use all legal and media resources to have the Michigan election annulled.
It’s not by chance that this offensive is launching now. On Monday, the Michigan Elections Commission will meet here in Lansing to approve the results of the November 3 election.
Following the decision, the state Congress can designate the 16 voters who will elect the next president of the United States on December 14. This procedure is in normal times a mere formality. And of course it should also be this year.
But nothing is normal this year.
Donald Trump is also putting personal pressure on Republican politicians in the state, with the full weight of his office. For a president to become involved in state politics in this way and attempt to influence an election is something that has never happened in modern times.
Earlier this week Trump called two Republican members of a local election committee in Wayne County. The two had voted to approve the election result in the state’s largest city, Detroit, after questioning it for the first time.
Monica Palmer, a Republican member of the Wayne County Elections Commission, was summoned by President Trump this week. Here with his Democratic colleague on the election committee Jonathan Kinloch.
Photo: Robin Buckson / AP
Monica Palmer, one of the two members, says she had been hanged as a racist after the first committee vote, which would have meant hundreds of thousands of African American votes in Detroit would not have been counted.
She also says that she and her family received threats and that in the end she did not face the press but agreed to approve the result. Then Trump called.
“The president wanted to know if I was okay because he had heard about the threats,” Palmer wrote in a text message to the Detroit Free Press.
After the phone call, he took and his Republican colleague withdrew his approval, something that is not formally possible once the decision has been made.
But Trump was unhappy with the local election commission in Detroit.
He has also summoned the two Republican leaders to the Michigan State Senate and House of Representatives for a meeting with the President of the White House, that is, the politicians who formally appoint the electors of the state. The meeting is expected to take place on Friday.
Can Trump persuade state politicians to halt Michigan’s election process, or even name 16 Republican voters?
Nothing is out of the question.
Mike Shirkey.
Photo: Cory Morse / AP
But one of the two State Senate Leader Mike Shirkey told the Bridge Michigan site earlier this week that he had no plans to declare Trump the winner.
– It will not happen, he said, noting that voters will be given to the one who has won the most votes in the state.
Brian Dickerson, senior writer for the Detroit Free Press, urges Shirkey and his colleague to decline Trump’s invitation.
“It is one thing for a defeated president to slander our state, but quite another for our own high-level Republican politicians to confirm and reinforce his paranoid fantasies. No matter how he calculates the risks, legal, political and epidemiological, the White House is a dangerous place right now. “
