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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

How Speaker Mike Johnson kept pushing to overturn the 2020 election

AP

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson led a campaign to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

On 5 January 2021, the day before the violent insurrection at the US Capitol, Mr Johnson met with other Republicans behind closed doors to discuss what Congress had to do the following day.

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