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‘I will not break my oath’: Arizona Assembly speaker details Trump’s pressure to overturn results

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, left, and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling wait to testify before the U.S. House Select Committee's fourth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

WASHINGTON — Republican state legislators and elected officials detailed Tuesday the intense pressure they faced from President Trump and his lawyers to subvert the will of voters and to persuade lawmakers to submit false slates of electors backing him to Congress.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling, all Republicans, testified at the fourth hearing of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, about the actions of Trump and those in his inner circle.

Bowers gave testimony about

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