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Skullduggery

Michigan Meltdown

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder and former Communications Director for the Republican National Committee Doug Heye join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Snyder weighs in on Trump, what he's done to the country and it's democracy, and why he endorsed now President-elect Joe Biden. Then, Heye talks about where the Republican Party now stands and if there is indeed a chance it could ever go back to what it was prior to the impact Trump has made on it.

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0:00.0

When the votes got counted from this month's selection, Joe Biden carried the state of Michigan

0:07.3

by more than 150,000 votes.

0:10.7

But that hasn't stopped President Trump and his allies from trying to figure out a way

0:15.3

somehow to swing the state's 16 electoral votes into his column.

0:20.5

On Friday, the president invited the GOP leaders of the Michigan legislature to the White House

0:25.3

as part of an apparent effort to subvert the will of the people, and by legislative fiat

0:31.4

direct that pro-Trump electors be selected for the electoral college.

0:36.4

Those leaders after the meeting gave a little sign they were prepared to do so, saying

0:40.4

in a statement they had not seen, quote, any information that would change the outcome

0:45.4

of the election.

0:46.6

Still, the mere fact that President Trump, in his last two months in office, would try

0:51.8

to toss the results of an American election, has created what many view as a national scandal,

0:58.5

made even worse by the fact that very few Republicans have been willing to call them

1:02.6

out for what he has been trying to do.

1:05.6

Today, we'll talk to two who are more than willing to do so.

1:09.1

Former Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder and former Republican National Committee

1:13.6

Communications Director Doug High, they'll give their takes on this episode of Skull

1:19.4

Duggery.

1:49.4

I'm Michael Isigoff, Chief of the Escape Correspondent for Yahoo News.

2:01.6

And I'm Dan Clydeman at our Chief of Yahoo News.

2:04.6

So there are basically two ways to look at this.

2:07.7

One is that what Trump and his lawyers have been somehow trying to figure out a way to

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