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Senior GOP lawmakers grow anxious over Trump’s efforts to overturn election results

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Few Republicans have spoken out publicly but a growing number of GOP lawmakers are growing restless and pushing back on Trump’s effort to overturn the election results.  Still, it seems most of the other GOP members are afraid to anger Trump, or the party’s base who could help decide the winner of the upcoming twin runoff elections in Georgia. William Cohen is a former Republican Congressman and Senator who also served as Defense Secretary under Pres. Clinton. He joins AC360 to discuss how he thinks the GOP and the President are handling the election loss. Plus, the President’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is the latest in the Trump inner circle to test positive for coronavirus. Trump Jr. has spread a significant amount of false information about the deadly virus, including telling Fox News that the number of Covid-19 deaths is “almost nothing.” More than 254,000 have died in the U.S. and an influential model projects that number will rise to 471,000 deaths by March 1 assuming 40 states’ governments impose or re-impose social distancing and other mandates. If that doesn’t happen, the death toll could reach 658,000. Dr. Chris Murray is the director of the group at the University of Washington that’s been working on these models throughout the pandemic. He tells AC360 the numbers are going up faster than expected and he thinks one of the reasons is people are not being as cautious.     Airdate: November 20, 2020   Guests: William Cohen Dr. Chris Murray   To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So the bad news is the president is trying to overturn the election.

0:05.5

The good news is his latest attempt today seems to have failed.

0:09.8

John Berman here in Ferranderson, back to that bad news, which is really historically

0:14.2

bad.

0:15.2

How do we know the president and his team are trying to overturn the election?

0:19.6

Because they told us, listen.

0:25.3

The entire election, frankly, in all the swing states should be overturned and the legislators

0:33.7

should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump.

0:39.4

That's Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell talking to Fox Business.

0:42.7

And when she says she wants the election overturned, I think what she means is that she wants

0:47.9

the election overturned.

0:49.9

She's talking about negating the will of the people in states where they chose president

0:53.6

elect Joe Biden, but whose state legislatures happen to be Republican controlled.

0:58.9

So far for all the hair dye running down Rudy Giuliani's face, so for every sex shop

1:04.3

press or every clown short courtroom presentation, this is serious.

1:09.2

After all, when the clowns are pouring gasoline over the electoral process and lighting

1:12.4

matches, you stop noticing the grease paint or the hair dye, which brings us to this

1:17.8

newest phase of the president's campaign to overturn the election.

1:21.4

The first demanding the vote counting stop in some states and continue in others, depending

1:25.0

on whether or not he was ahead of the moment, that is failed.

1:28.0

And on that note, Georgia this evening certified its results, cementing president elect

1:32.4

Biden's win there.

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