Donald Trump picked up a phone to pressure a Nebraska state senator to revive a winner-take-all system of awarding its Electoral College votes for president, the Nebraska Examiner reports.
Trump called State Sen. Tom Brewer (R), who said there wasn’t time left in the session.
Trump then reportedly told Brewer, who is term-limited this year, that his political career was over.
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