Wisconsin Democrat Questions Johnson's Role Regarding Fake Electors

Monday, June 27th, 2022 -- 9:08 AM

(Bob Hague, WRN) A House Democrat questions Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s explanation of his role in an effort by his staff to get fake presidential elector documents to Vice President Mike Pence, just prior to the Senate vote to confirm Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

In a radio interview on WIA Friday, Johnson said, “My chief of staff appropriately reached out to his friend in the Vice President's office, and said ‘hey we need to get these documents to your boss.’ Says ‘what are they?’ He said ‘the alternate slate of electors.’ He said ‘don't deliver them,’ and we didn't. End of story.”

La Crosse Congressman Ron Kind on WKOW’s “Capitol City Sunday” said Johnson has some more explaining to do. “Either he is lying or he is the most incompetent member of Congress that he would allow information to go to the Vice President without his knowledge of what it was and the gravity of what it was.”

Kind said the U.S. Department of Justice may need to investigate Johnson’s involvement in the matter.

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