At Jan. 6 hearing, GOP state election officials detail pushback to Trump's pressure

The committee said he was directly involved in the 'fake electors" scheme.

ByLibby Cathey and Alexandra Hutzler
Last Updated: August 4, 2022, 5:33 PM EDT

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held another hearing Tuesday on the pressure campaign it says former President Donald Trump and allies put on state election officials as part of a larger "seven-part scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Here is how the hearing unfolded:

Jun 21, 2022, 12:04 PM EDT

4th June hearing to include 4 live witnesses

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump asked to "find" just one vote over the margin by which he trailed President-elect Joe Biden in a now-infamous phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, will testify before the committee this afternoon, along with his blunt-spoken deputy, Gabe Sterling, after facing backlash from their own party for pushing back on Trump's claims of election fraud in Georgia.

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, speaks during a news conference at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia on Dec. 14, 2020.
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Gabriel Sterling, Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, answers questions during a press conference on the status of ballot counting on Nov. 6, 2020 in Atlanta.
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Joining them will be Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who was pressured by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to decertify Biden's victory in the state, according to emails reviewed by ABC News. Bowers previously described to The Arizona Republic that Rudy Giuliani also called him after the election to pressure him to involve the state legislature to manipulate results in his state.

Rep. Russell Bowers speaks on the House floor at the Capitol, Jan. 9, 2018, in Phoenix.
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Former Fulton County election worker Shaye Moss, who was falsely accused by Giuliani and other Republicans of election fraud and smuggling "suitcases" of illegal ballots in Atlanta on election night, will testify on a second panel. She's said that she and her mother, another election worker, were subject to harassment and threats online even after Georgia election officials debunked fraud allegations.

Jun 21, 2022, 11:42 AM EDT

What to expect at Tuesday's hearing

The committee's afternoon hearing will focus on what it says was then-President Donald Trump's "unprecedented" effort to push key state officials to reject the election results and his central role in the plot to create "fake" slates of electors to overturn Joe Biden's victory.

An image of former President Donald Trump is displayed during the third hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, June 16, 2022.
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Trump "drove a pressure campaign bases on lies" about the election, an aide told reporters on a briefing call Monday, and was "warned that his actions risked inciting violence" but "did it anyway."

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will lead the 1 p.m. ET hearing that the aide said will reveal new information obtained by the committee detailing Trump's involvement and feature live witness testimony from Arizona and Georgia officials.

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