Benson continues to speak out about the risks to free and fair elections in Michigan and nationwide, as Trump supporters continue to perpetuate false claims and work to seize control of state and local election processes from duly elected or appointed public servants. Throughout the 2020 election cycle, Benson repeatedly refused to back down from fulfilling the duties of her office, even as threats and harassment from then-President Trump and his allies grew increasingly aggressive. According to Bowers’ Facebook page, his daughter, Kacey Rae Bowers, died on 28. Benson, the state's chief elections officer, did not waver, and defended the will of Michigan voters and assured them that she would protect and defend the integrity of Michigan's vote in accordance with state law. Bowers added: At the same time we had a daughter was gravely ill, was upset by what was happening outside.
Protesters called Benson a "traitor” and a “criminal” for defending the certification of Michigan's accurate results, which favored Joe Biden.
In December 2020, shortly after the presidential election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was at home putting up Christmas decorations with her young son when armed protestors massed in front of her house demanding that Michigan's presidential election result be reversed. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. Following the 2020 presidential election, Rusty Bowers, a pro-Trump Republican, resisted intense pressure from Trump and Rudy Giuliani and refused to go along with an illegal scheme to replace Arizona’s legal slate of electors with a false slate of electors who would elect Trump. The hearing is expected to focus on former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on state officials to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.īowers will join Georgia’s election officials - Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling - who will be part of a panel before the January 6 committee detailing Trump’s campaign to force states to overturn their certified election results.īowers, who supported Trump’s reelection bid in 2020, refused to bow to intimidation and efforts to get him to back efforts in the legislature to decertify Biden’s victory in Arizona.Ī spokesman for the January 6 committee declined to comment on the news of Bowers’ testimony.
Rusty Bowers, a Republican who is the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, is expected to testify at Tuesday’s hearing held by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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