Trump is expected to meet with Michigan's top state lawmakers, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, on Friday at the White House after requesting the visit, sources tell ABC News.
The extraordinary move comes amid the Trump campaign's ongoing fight over the outcome of the election in the battleground, with relentless unsubstantiated claims of fraud and a string of legal challenges to the results.
As the president runs out of alternatives to challenge Biden's clear victory in the state by nearly 150,000 votes, members of the president's legal team have openly said the last recourse might be the GOP-controlled legislature intervening by overriding the will of the people and choosing their own slate of pro-Trump electors to vote for the president at the Electoral College's December meeting.
Shirkey quashed the idea to Bridge Michigan, a local news outlet, saying that the legislature will not move to award the state's 16 electors to Trump. "That's not going to happen," he said.
A spokesperson for the state Senate majority leader also reiterated that state law does not allow for the legislature to step in and directly select the electors or award the electors to anyone other than the popular vote winner.
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Kendall Karson