President Donald Trump did not do anything wrong in his phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told CNBC on Monday.
"I frankly don't find the offense that a lot of people see in it," Cramer told "Squawk Box." "When you listen to all 62 minutes, he was going through some pretty basic math. He believes, of course, that there was fraud [on] several fronts."
By going through all the perceived discrepancies in the hour-long phone call, Cramer said, "I didn't get a sense that he was pressuring anybody, but rather stating facts and talking about the math he needs to make up if he was to overturn this election."
However, Cramer said members of Congress do not have the constitutional authority to overturn the election results, explaining, "I come from a red, small state – I don't want to have our votes overturned by other members of Congress from other places. I don't see in the Constitution where we actually have that authority, quite honestly, and I read it again this morning to be sure."
But, despite this viewpoint, Cramer insisted there must be some sort of bipartisan commission on election integrity set up in order to look into the possibility of reforms moving forward, because much of the public is distrustful of the current system.
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