The fourth hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot heard Tuesday from state election officials in Arizona and Georgia, two states key to President Joe Biden's electoral victory, about how then-President Donald Trump and his allies leaned on them to help overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump asked to "find" votes in a leaked phone call, testified that Trump received fewer votes than expected because roughly 28,000 Republicans who voted didn't choose a president that year, supporting GOP candidates for other offices instead. Raffensperger's chief operating officer, Gabriel Sterling told the panel he became "irate" when election workers were threatened after Trump made false claims about the results. One of them, he said, was threatened to be "hung for treason" after transferring an election report to a county computer.
Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers described how "painful" it was to have friends turn on him "with such rancor" after he refused to overturn Biden's win, and how a pistol-toting man threatened his neighbor during protests outside Bowers' home.
And former Georgia election worker Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss testified about the racist threats and death wishes she received after becoming the focus of a Trump conspiracy theory.
Text messages displayed by the committee showed that a top aide to Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin tried to send a slate of phony Electoral College electors from that state and Michigan to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a former federal prosecutor, led the questioning. He called Trump's lies about the election results "a dangerous cancer on the body politic."
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