McConnell worried that angering Trump could cost his party the Senate. Even as Trump claimed he could overturn the presidential election, he told Republicans to stay focused on Georgia. In a December 2020 call, Trump boasted to senators that he had been calling people in those states. McConnell privately worried that Donald Trump would cost their party control of the Senate by derailing two Georgia Republicans, even though he avoided discussing his concerns about the 2020 presidential election being stolen or fraudulent. According to new details from This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future, a forthcoming book from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, that were reported by CNN on Wednesday. In a December 2020 call, Trump told McConnell and other Republican senators that he had been told by state officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan that they would take steps to keep him in power. Trump told the senators on the call that he had been calling people in those states. He believed that if he could get Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to de-certify the election of President Joe Biden, other states would follow suit. Biden would have been in the White House for a second term if that had happened. McConnell was more focused on the Georgia elections, where Republicans David Perdue and Kelly loeffler faced off against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. On the call, Burns and Martin reported that Trump claimed that Georgia voters wouldn't tolerate Kemp's assurances about the security of the election, and that Perdue and Loeffler should speak up if they lose their races. The contention was met with silence from McConnell. McConnell told his colleagues to stay focused on Georgia after the December 2020 call with Trump, according to Martin and Burns. Many blamed depressed Republican turnout due to false claims about the 2020 election for the upset victory of Ossoff and Warnock. According to the book, McConnell sought to maintain a strategic silence about Trump's false claims in order to prevent him from sabotaging the party's chances in the runoffs. McConnell told the book's authors that he thought he was setting this up to blame the governor and the secretary of state if we lose. A McConnell spokesman declined to comment to CNN, while a Trump spokesman told the outlet that the former president has been clear and consistent about the need to hold those criminals accountable. McConnell went to the floor of the Senate on December 15, 2020 and declared that the Electoral College had spoken. Trump called for McConnell to be overthrown as the Senate Republican leader. The original article is on Business Insider. The GOP would lose control of the Senate and McConnell&s worst fears came to fruition. 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