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BENSON: "And this is really extraordinary. I mean, I wasn't aware until Craig’s reports that this recording existed. It is quite extraordinary. We had a gut feeling and had lots of different pieces of evidence to suggest that this was happening, so I wasn’t surprised by anything that was revealed or any of the revelations in the recording. It does underscore the fact that there is evidence that the former president did actively try to pressure local officials to block the certification of a fair and legitimate election. And it brought back all of the memories of that moment, which for me was -- the night of the Wayne County board of canvassers certification was one of the lowest moments for me of the entire post-election process because we knew, if Wayne County didn’t certify — that’s where Detroit is, in Michigan — then that would delay certification for the entire state, and then that could potentially delay or confuse certification in all of the battleground states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, because we were going first. And then if that happened, that opens it up for state legislatures to then override election results and allocate the electors to perhaps then-President Trump opening the false state of electors to come in and then be accepted by Congress on January 6th. So it was all this plan that we knew could unfold in that direction, and it all began that night in the Wayne County Board of Canvassers’ meeting."