Georgia’s Raffensperger, other states’ officials to testify during Tuesday’s Jan. 6 hearing
The House select committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will meet Tuesday for its fourth public hearing this month.
Expected to appear before the panel Tuesday are Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office.
In addition, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Wandrea Moss, a former election worker from Fulton County, Georgia, will also appear.
Committee members say the focus of Tuesday’s hearing will be on how former President Donald Trump and his allies pressured state-level officials in Georgia and Arizona over the 2020 presidential election results.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Bowers said he is expected to be asked about a call with Trump during which lawyer Rudy Giuliani floated an idea to replace Arizona’s electors with those who would vote for Trump.
Republican Congressional leaders continue to downplay the hearings, saying people have either made up their minds about the incident, or have no opinion about it.
“To the degree that there are any people who haven’t made up their minds or don’t have an opinion one way or the other, maybe something comes out of this that changes that,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-South Dakota, said.
“But it just seems like right now it’s mostly rehashing ground.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, told The Los Angeles Times that the panel would also release new information about the involvement of Mark Meadows, Trump’s final chief of staff.
“Our democracy is more vulnerable today than it has ever been. They’re using the same big lie that propelled that violence to disenfranchise people of color, with new voter disenfranchisement laws, to attack independent elections officials,” he said. “And as long as that is the case, then that is where I’m going to have put my focus until we get through this crisis,” Schiff, one of the Democratic members of the committee, said.
According to committee aides, video testimony of depositions from officials in other states concerning the results of the 2020 election will also be shown.
