The members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will focus on former President Donald Trump's attempts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election at their fourth hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
The testimony at the hearing "will demonstrate that President Trump and his allies drove a pressure campaign based on lies" that put state and local election officials at risk, according to committee aides who briefed reporters.
Aides also said the hearing will show how the Trump campaign organized slates of false electors in states that Trump lost to President Biden in order to facilitate disrupting the congressional proceedings to certify the election on Jan. 6.
For the past two weeks, the committee has held hearings with the goal of making a case that Trump was responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer at the Georgia secretary of state's office, are among those slated to testify on Tuesday.
Raffensperger and Sterling, both Republicans, vociferously defended the state's handling of the 2020 election under both public and private pressure from Trump and his allies to overturn President Biden's victory in Georgia. Trump was recorded on a phone call with Raffensperger telling him to "find" enough votes to flip the state, and Trump endorsed Georgia GOP Rep. Jody Hice in an unsuccessful primary bid against...
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