Wisconsin Sen Ron Johnson wanted to hand-deliver a slate of fake “alternate” Electoral College votes to Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6, according to a new set of text messages revealed by the select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
In a conversation obtained by the committee and shared publicly for the first time on Tuesday, an aide to Mr Johnson, Sean Riley, told Mr Pence’s legislative director, Chris Hodgson, that the senator had the information to hand-deliver to the vice president when the latter was on Capitol Hill for the certification of the election later in the day.
