Arizona House speaker, who resisted Trump pressure campaign, testifying at January 6 hearing Tuesday

Bowers will be part of Georgia’s election officers — Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling — who might be a part of a panel earlier than the January 6 committee detailing Trump’s marketing campaign to pressure states to overturn their licensed election outcomes.

Bowers, who supported Trump’s reelection bid in 2020, (*6*) and makes an attempt to get him to again efforts within the legislature to decertify Biden’s victory in Arizona.

He previously described how Trump and the then-President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani referred to as him after the 2020 election to persuade him to in some way contain the legislature within the state’s certification course of earlier than sending its presidential electors to Congress.

Tuesday’s hearing would be the fourth this month for the January 6 committee.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, later confirmed CNN’s reporting about Bowers testifying throughout an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta on “Newsroom.”

“That’s my understanding,” Lofgren stated, including she wished to listen to “the reality” from these testifying.

“These people are Republicans. They voted for Trump. They are, you recognize, supported him,” she stated. “But they would not do unlawful issues that he requested them to do. So we anticipate to listen to in some element in regards to the pressure that was positioned on them and why they had been true to the regulation as a substitute of the pressure.”

Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, resisted Trump’s efforts throughout an notorious January 2021 telephone name to pressure him to “discover” the votes essential for the then-President to win Georgia. Last month, he fended off a Trump-backed main foe as he seeks a second time period in workplace.

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