censure her.<\/a> She later conducted an investigation that found no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud throughout the state.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the day before the slate of fake electors met, the transcripts show McDonald grew increasingly frustrated with the RNC\u2019s direction over how to conduct the certificate signing. It appeared that he had gone back and forth with the RNC about logistics of the ceremony: the location, how they would publicize it and what they would say in their speeches.<\/p>\n
\u201cRNC essentially put us in a box on what we can say, but doesn\u2019t sound too bad,\u201d Shawn Meehan, one of the fake electors, said in a text to DeGraffenreid.<\/p>\n
Meehan also told DeGraffenreid that McDonald wanted a smaller group that would plan the final details over breakfast, and that he is \u201cstressing on the optics.\u201d It was visible to several of the fake electors \u2014 that same day, another fake elector had texted DeGraffenreid that McDonald was upset with \u201cmixed messages and direction on publicity for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s very concerned RNC will cut cord if it looks bad and steal credit if we do well,\u201d Meehan messaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know,” DeGraffenreid responded. \u201cHe\u2019s concerned that we look like foolish crybabies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the Nevada Republican Party would press forward, and after nearly two months of planning, McDonald, DeGraffenreid and the other fake electors gathered outside the Capitol building in Carson City for a ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistory made today in Carson City, Nevada,\u201d the state party would write on social media after the ceremony, “as @McDonaldNV leads our electors in casting Nevada\u2019s 6 electoral votes for the winner of Nevada, @realDonaldTrump and @Mike_Pence!\u201d<\/p>\n
McDonald did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday evening. A lawyer for DeGraffenreid said he declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The nine-member committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will dissolve when Republicans take over the House next month. The committee on Thursday\u00a0released its full 800-plus page report<\/a>\u00a0of its 18-month investigation, which they hope will lead to criminal charges against Trump and his key allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party\u2019s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power. The documents made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22357012562852-e1671793344985.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10133,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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