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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Tuesday objected to the assertion that he “pressured” Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers to decertify their state’s electors in the 2020 presidential election.
The congressman’s comments came hours after Bowers’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a hearing Thursday. Under questioning by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Bowers alleged that Biggs called him on the morning of Jan. 6 and asked him to “sign on both to a letter that had been sent from my state and/or that I would support the decertification of electors” but that he refused to do so.
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At an event held at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Biggs was approached by a reporter who asked if he “pressured” Bowers.
“Did Rusty imply that? Did Rusty say that? No, he didn’t. Adam Schiff implied it. Did Rusty? Go back and watch it again,” Biggs said in the exchange observed by the Washington Examiner.
“That’s a really ridiculous premise and you know it,” Biggs added.
The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Biggs last month, demanding in a letter that he testify regarding his alleged participation “in meetings to plan various aspects of January 6th,” as well as his alleged involvement in both “efforts to persuade state officials that the 2020 [election] was stolen” and with “plans to bring protestors to Washington for the counting of Electoral College votes.”
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The committee also asserted that Biggs was a “participant” in “efforts by certain House Republicans after January 6th to seek a presidential pardon for activities taken in connection with President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Biggs objected to the subpoena, calling the Jan. 6 committee “illegitimate” and claiming that it is engaged in an “ongoing, baseless witch hunt.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Biggs’s office for further comment.
