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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Arizona election chief says he’d still vote for Trump even after the former president asked him to overturn election

NBC

Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers told the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot that he would vote for Donald Trump again despite testifying that the former president asked him to break the law to overturn the state’s election.

Earlier this week Mr Bowers told the House Select Committee that Mr Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani had called on him to participate in a scheme to replace the state's electors with electors loyal to the then-president. He refused, telling Mr Trump that doing so would be illegal and unconstitutional.

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