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A staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sought to have delivered a slate of “alternate” electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence that would swing the results of the 2020 election in favor of President Donald Trump, according to text messages revealed by the Jan. 6 committee.
The aide, Sean Riley, texted Chris Hodgson, who was the director of legislative affairs for the vice president, at 12:37 p.m. on Jan. 6, according to a screenshot of the messages. This was the day a joint session of Congress met, with Pence presiding over the event, to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The message was sent roughly a half-hour before the Capitol had been breached by rioters and the session was put on pause for several hours.
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“Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise,” the first message reads. A follow-up message says the delivery would include an “alternate slate of electors for [Michigan] and [Wisconsin] because archivist didn’t receive them.”
“Do not give that to him,” Hodgson responded.
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The text messages were revealed during the Jan. 6 committee’s fourth summer public hearing Tuesday, which focused on evidence showing that Trump and his team orchestrated an alternate “fake electors” scheme in key battleground states to overturn the 2020 results.
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A spokeswoman for Johnson responded to the hearing on Twitter, writing that “the senator had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office.”
“This was a staff-to-staff exchange,” she added. “His new chief of staff contacted the vice president’s office.”
