Some of the most harrowing testimony in the congressional Jan. 6 hearings has come from Republican officials in battleground states who endured tremendous pressure from Donald Trump and his allies to help overturn the 2020 election.
And not the normal kind of pressure politicians apply to each other.
Many of Trump’s followers went far beyond any reasonable attempt to influence these men and women. Anyone who didn’t completely capitulate when the former president tried to cajole them into supporting his scheme was harassed and threatened.
