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CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A group of Republicans on Wednesday defended 16 GOP electors for signing a false certificate claiming former President Donald Trump won Michigan in 2020, a day after Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges accusing them of engaging in election fraud.

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel is leveling felony charges against 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Donald Trump won Michigan's 2020 presidential election, launching criminal cases against top political figures inside the state GOP.

LANSING, Mich. — Laura Cox, former chairwoman of the Michigan GOP, told a committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol that she contracted COVID-19 from Rudy Giuliani and had concerns about the idea of Republicans signing certificates falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump summoned Michigan state lawmakers to the White House just two weeks after the November 2020 election, his directive was for the group to "have some backbone and do the right thing."

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The committee revealed the breadth of the Trump team's pressure campaign to get state officials to change the 2020 election results.

‘Republican electors were planning to meet in the capitol and hide overnight so that they could fulfil the role of casting their vote, per law, in the Michigan chambers’

GOP state officials detailed for the Jan. 6 select committee their resistance to Donald Trump's demands they overturn the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was interviewed last week by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.