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As the House January 6 panel turns its attention to the Trump campaign's push to overturn its state-level losses, it will hear from an Arizona House Speaker who bucked his party and refused to toss out Biden's victory.
There is a January 6 committee meeting.
In the aftermath of Trump's loss in Arizona, his lawyers urged the state's legislature to declare him the winner.
During this push, he spoke on the phone with Trump at least twice, he told the Associated Press, and he got an email from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urging him to choose a "clean slate of Electors"
In a December 2020 statement, he said Trump's team presented only theories of election fraud rather than hard evidence, and that state lawmakers didn't have the authority to "nullify the people's vote."
In the days leading up to the January 6 riot, Trump's attorney called Bowers and asked him to vote to decertify Biden's win in Arizona, a request that he believed would violate his oath of office, according to the January 6 committee.
"As a conservative Republican, I don't like the results of the presidential election." I will not entertain the idea of changing the outcome of a certified election.
Some members of his party were bucked by him. Some Republican Arizona lawmakers drafted a bill that would have given them the power to toss out the results of future elections, but Bowers used an obscure procedural trick to kill the bill in the state House.
The House January 6 committee will release the results of its months-long investigation into the Capitol riot over a series of public hearings, with a focus on Trump's push to stay in office even though he lost his reelection bid. The committee is expected to discuss the pressure applied to Republican state officials. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will testify. State legislators in Pennsylvania and Michigan refused to proclaim Trump the winner of their states' electoral votes, despite being Republicans.
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