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Georgia's Raffensperger among witnesses for next 1/6 hearing
[AP] Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is set to testify Tuesday at the House Jan. 6 committee about the extraordinary pressure he faced from former President Donald Trump to "find 11,780" votes that could flip the state to prevent Joe Biden’s election victoryRaffensperger, along with his deputy Gabe Sterling and Arizona’s state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, are scheduled to be the key witnesses when the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection resumes on Tuesday. The focus will be on how the former president and his allies vigorously pressured officials in key battleground states with schemes to reject ballots or entire state tallies to upend the results of the 2020 presidential election. Additionally, the panel will underscore how Trump knew his unrelenting pressure campaign could potentially cause violence against state and local officials and their families but pursued it anyway, according to a select committee aide. "We will show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn’t go along with this plan to either call legislatures back into session or decertify the results for Joe Biden," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., one of the Democratic members of the committee, told CNN on Sunday. Related: Brad Raffensperger: 2022-05-07 Marjorie Taylor Greene cleared to run for reelection after insurrection charges Brad Raffensperger: 2022-05-01 Dinesh D'Souza's '2000 Mules': Ballot trafficking exposé has the evidence; can it get a hearing? Brad Raffensperger: 2022-04-27 Investigators in Georgia ballot harvesting probe zero in on funding, eyewitness whistleblower Related: Jan. 6: 2022-06-21 Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters Jan. 6: 2022-06-16 Jamaal Bowman: There will be 'civil war' if GOP wins in midterms Jan. 6: 2022-06-15 Good Morning Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-22 |
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