Jan. 6 committee highlighted officials from former Vice Pres. Pence on down who resisted former Pres. Trump's 2020 demands.
September 12, 2022, 5:04 AMFormer Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Advancing Freedom Lecture Series at Stanford University, Feb. 17, 2022, in Stanford, Calif.This story is part of ABC News' series "Democracy in Peril," which examines the inflection point the country finds itself at after the Jan. 6 attacks and ahead of the 2022 election.
As the committee detailed in its summer hearings, that effort was ultimately unsuccessful in large part thanks to a handful of people who resisted Trump's demands despite the consequences that followed. Some leading Republicans who chose to support the 2020 election result have said it was their moral and legal duty, regardless of politics.Former Vice President Mike Pence
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Advancing Freedom Lecture Series at Stanford University, Feb. 17, 2022, in Stanford, Calif.Trump and Pence had a phone call just hours before the joint congressional session began, in what onlookers described as a "heated" conversation. As the Capitol attack unfolded and the mob threatened to kill the vice president, Pence was forced to hide in an underground location while Trump continued to criticize him on social media.
Raffensperger told the Jan. 6 committee in live testimony that his wife received sexually threatening texts and his daughter-in-law had her home broken into. Raffensperger went on to face a Trump-backed primary challenger but won.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, FILEBowers, then the top Republican in the Arizona State House of Representatives, became emotional as he described to the committee the toll of being asked to violate his oath of office.
After that Trump tweet, Schmidt said the threats against him "became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family by name, their ages, our address, pictures of our home." Schmidt resigned from his position in late November 2021.described the many efforts
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