Trump's former defense secretary tells Bill Maher he's inching closer to voting for Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : ""Even during my time in the Legislature I don't have any memorable interactions with the auditor general then, either," said Byrum, who served as a Democratic House member from 2007 to 2012.
52% : Flint was the first Michigan municipality to undergo the process since Snyder signed Public Act 4 of 2011, which lowered the threshold by which an emergency manager could be appointed to oversee a public body's finances.
51% : He also joined calls for a so-called "forensic audit" of the 2020 vote, a consistent talking point of Trump supporters to delegitimize the 2020 results.
47% : "The Office of the Auditor General has existed since 1836 and is an independent constitutional entity that is expected to carry out its duties free from partisan influence and political motives," he told the Advance.
47% : He said the report produced by the OAG on LTC deaths contained numbers of deceased patients that differed not because the Whitmer administration was attempting to cover up the deaths -- but because the auditor general's information, as requested by a GOP legislator, included more deaths than the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is required to report under federal and state requirements.
47% : "I also don't want to denigrate or diminish the importance of legislative oversight over the administration.
44% : While more than 250 audits involving 1,300 Republican, Democratic and nonpartisan clerks across the state had confirmed Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes, a long list of Republicans in Michigan, including elected officials like Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford), and his wife, then-state Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock, continued to falsely claim that Trump won.
37% : "There are extensive and well-founded accusations of electoral administration mismanagement and deliberate and admitted violations of explicit election laws enacted by state legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin," stated the letter she signed the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.Alexander's request was made when efforts to cast doubt on the validity of the 2020 election results, both in Michigan and across the country, were nearing a fever pitch as Trump and his allies pushed the lie that a vast conspiracy had stolen the election for Biden.
29% : While the State Budget Office downplayed the line-item placeholder as being part of the normal process, noting a similar placeholder was also listed for the legislative retirement system, Republicans immediately responded with accusations of political interference by Whitmer.
23% : "When the audit in question finally did come out in March 2022, it found no evidence of election fraud as had been repeatedly alleged by Trump and his supporters, including Alexander.

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