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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

EXPLAINER: How 'bold' plan evolved for Pence to stop Biden

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing Thursday on the pressure that Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, in a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan to stop Joe Biden’s election victory.

Trump seized on the unorthodox proposal from conservative law professor John Eastman to have Pence turn back the electors when the vice president presided over Congress to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.

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