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'I Took an Oath,' Rusty Bowers Says of Rejecting Efforts to Overturn the Election - The New York Times

'I Took an Oath,' Rusty Bowers Says of Rejecting Efforts to Overturn the Election - The New York Times

'I Took an Oath,' Rusty Bowers Says of Rejecting Efforts to Overturn the Election - The New York Times
Jun 21, 2022 1 min, 6 secs

Over nearly an hour, Rusty Bowers, a Republican who is the speaker of the House of Representatives in Arizona, testified on Tuesday in painstaking and emotional detail about the pressure campaign he faced over several weeks after the Nov.

Bowers, speaking slowly, also told the House select committee about the harassment he experienced outside his home from Trump supporters in the weeks before Jan.

Giuliani and an associate, Jenna Ellis, met with Arizona lawmakers, including Mr.

Bowers recalled.

Bowers said.

Bowers testified, said that he should “just do it and let the courts figure it all out.”.

Finally, he testified, there was a call from another Trump supporter, Representative Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona, on the morning of Jan.

Biggs, he said, pushed him again to undo the state’s certification of its electors for Mr.

He also recalled his reaction when he learned that Trump advisers pushed ahead with a scheme to put forward slates of “alternate” electors.

Bowers said.

Bowers’s personal journal contained an entry in which he said, “I do not want to be a winner by cheating

Bowers had told him the election was “rigged” and that he had won the state

Bowers said

A moment later, more emphatically, he said, “Anywhere, anyone, any time has said that I said the election was rigged — that would not be true.”

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