Georgia election officials were at the center of Tuesday’s January 6 hearing

ATLANTA — Fulton County election sites and Georgia state election officials were at the center of new evidence released on Capitol Hill today.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger testified before the house committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. capitol attack. He was there to weigh in on efforts by former President Trump to pressure his office into overturning the election results.

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Channel 2′s Washington Correspondent Samantha Manning has been following the capitol attack since it happened and was at Tuesday’s hearing where the committee said former President Trump did nothing to stop the violent threats against election officials.

Tuesday’s evidence focused on state election officials facing harassment and violent threats because they did not overturn the election results in favor of former President Trump. The committee said those threats extended from the top state election officials like secretaries of state, down to poll workers.

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At the heart of the committee’s evidence was testimony that the 2020 election was not stolen, and that former President Trump knew it.

“Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election in Georgia and by what margin?” Jan. 6 Select Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“President Biden carried the state of Georgia by approximately 12,000 votes,” Raffensperger responded.

Witnesses said intimidation continued despite the facts pointing to President Biden as the winner.

“Telling me I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad its 2020 and not 1920,” former Georgia election worker Wandrea Arshaye Moss told the committee some of the threats she received.

And it wasn’t only in Georgia. Newly released video evidence showed election officials in other state became targets too, over false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

“We started to hear the noises outside my home and my stomach sunk,” Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State, testified. “Are they coming with guns? Are they going to attack my house? I’m in here with my kid.”

State election officials in Arizona said they also faced continued pressure to overturn the election results,

and faced consequences when they refused.

“It is the new pattern in our lives to worry what will happen on Saturdays because we have various groups come by,” Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers said. “Arguing and threatening with neighbors and with myself.”

As Tuesday’s committee hearing was underway, U.S. House Republicans attacked committee member Congressman Adam Schiff on Twitter, saying the public cannot trust him.

The next hearing is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Former President Trump today released a statement saying that the Arizona Speaker of the House told Trump that he won the state of Arizona.

Tuesday’s testimony from the Arizona official directly disputed that. He claimed he never said that.

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