“Our job is to convene, to open the ballots, and to count them. That’s it,” Mike Lee of Utah, a staunch Trump supporter and self-described legal nerd, said when debate resumed on the floor.[21] For two months, Lee had been secretly working with Mark Meadows and others advising Trump on how to contest the election results, even, at one point in November, plugging the services of Sidney Powell to Trump and sending along her contact information. Lee had, by his own account, spent hours and hours working the phones trying to convince state legislators in battleground states to disregard the will
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