The Arizona Republic
Arizona is expected to share the national spotlight on Tuesday when the congressional committee investigating the cause of the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot calls state House Speaker Rusty Bowers as part of the hearing about the pressure campaign on swing state officials to flip the election to then-President Donald Trump.
The committee’s fourth public hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Arizona time. It is slated to be broadcast by most of the nation’s broadcast and cable television networks.
The committee has been telling a saga in two-hour chunks that members believe will stitch together a narrative that points an accusing finger at Trump. Members of the committee have asserted that Trump purposely stoked false claims of a stolen election, created quixotic and questionable schemes to alter election procedures and called together a pro-Trump crowd on the pivotal day, Jan. 6, 2021, when the election would be officially certified.
The committee’s most recent hearing looked at the pressure that Trump and others applied to former Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021, and instead assert authority to either declare Trump the winner or throw the question to the U.S. House or to state legislatures.
The hearing on Tuesday will look at how state officials were pressured to set the stage for Pence to act.
Follow coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings in Congress by Republic and USA TODAY reporters here.
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