Glad this was highlighted today:
Minutes before Congress was set to begin certification of the 2020 election 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 the fake elector votes from Wisconsin and Michigan.
"Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise," Johnson aide Sean Riley said in a text message to Pence staffer Chris Hodgson at 12:37 p.m. Jan. 6, according to testimony presented Tuesday by the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"What is it?" Hodgson 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."
Here’s some more context:
"The vice president's aide unambiguously instructed them not to deliver the fake votes to the Vice President," said Casey Lucier, an investigative counsel for the January 6 committee, in a pre-taped video aired Tuesday. "Even though the fake elector slates were transmitted to Congress and the executive branch, the vice president held firm in his position that his role was to count lawfully submitted electoral votes."
Pence and his aides viewed the vice president's role in the election certification process as the ceremonial responsibility to count all certified state votes unless any of them were blocked by Congress, and thus did not have authority to introduce electoral states not certified by a state — as Trump and his conservative adviser John Eastman pressed him to do.
While Johnson was originally among dozens of Republican senators who planned to object to the 2020 election results on January 6, he and several others later decided not to go forward with it.
Johnson’s potential Democratic opponents wasted no time go after him on this:
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