WASHINGTON – Minutes before Congress was set to begin certification of Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6, 2021, an aide for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told former Vice President Mike Pence's staff that Johnson wanted to hand-deliver to Pence votes from Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan who posed as fake presidential electors for Donald Trump.
"Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise," Sean Riley, Johnson's chief of staff, said in a text message to Pence staffer Chris Hodgson at 12:37 p.m. that day, according to evidence presented Tuesday by the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"What is it?" Hodgson, a former legislative affairs director for Pence, replied.
"Alternate slate of electors for MI and WI because archivist didn't receive them," Riley wrote back.
Hodgson then told Riley: "Do not give that to him."
The exchange offers a new glimpse into the Oshkosh Republican's involvement in Trump's effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election, a campaign to overturn the election results fueled by Trump's false claims of election fraud that triggered an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The evidence presented Tuesday once again showed that Wisconsin — one of seven states Biden won where groups of Republicans gathered as false presidential electors — was at the center of efforts to overturn the election.
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