People of the lie: The Michigan Republicans who tried to overturn the election Detroit Free Press Editorial Board, Detroit Free Press © handout U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain and U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg.
It began with an outrageous lie: Donald Trump s baseless assertion that election officials in Michigan and other battleground states had conspired to conceal his landslide re-election victory.
Over the next two months, 28 of Michigan s most prominent Republicans federal and state lawmakers, appointed officials and party leaders waged an unprecedented campaign to overturn the election results. They worked tirelessly to amplify and embroider Trump s false claims, persisting even as judges, state legislatures, election officials and law enforcement authorities debunked those allegations again and again.
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15 Michigan lawmakers will act like this never happened and that s crazy Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press
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This is a real pickle: Fifteen Michigan GOP legislators supported a lawsuit brought by another state, attempting to overturn the results of an election in which an 5.5 million Michiganders cast ballots, in thousands of races across the state.
And I m not sure how they move forward.
I mean, I know what s going to happen everyone involved will play like this never happened, even as those lawmakers continue working to undermine the results of the 2020 election the same election, incidentally, that secured their own seats.