U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly is denying claims made by a Wisconsin senator that he provided the senators with slates of false electors for former President Donald Trump as part of a scheme to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said in an interview Thursday on WIBA-AM, in Madison, Wisconsin, that documents false slates of electors, which he and an attorney attempted to get to Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol actually came from Kelly. Johnson initially told reporters that he did not know about the efforts of his staff to get the fake Wisconsin electors list to Pence, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

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Both Johnson's initial statement saying he was unaware of his staff's participation and his subsequent remarks about his involvement with a Wisconsin attorney in the scheme came after a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol uncovered more details about a plot to reject slates of electors for President Joe Biden from key battleground states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and substitute them with false slates of Trump electors.

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During a hearing Tuesday, the committee released evidence showing that Johnson's...

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