Over the weekend, Senator Ron Johnson was asked if he still stood by the false claim that Democrats have a history of using fake electors. He not only defended his lie, but expounded on it:
Reporter A.J. Bayatpour pointed out that Biden was declared the winner after a recount and that all of Trump's legal challenges had failed, yet RoJo went ahead and tried to deliver slates of fake electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to then Vice-President Mike Pence. Bayatpour asked RoJo how it was comparable to his claims:
Johnson: First of all, what I said was largely true. It was a gotcha question. I came onto the show to talk about the border and Ukraine funding and asked me about this. I was sliiiiightly wrong because there has been altered electors of Democrats. What's also happened is you've had Democrat electors try to convince Republican electors to become faithless electors. So my comment was there all kinds of examples of Democrats who repeatedly have denied the results of elections, they have tried to object to electors. So again, in a gotcha question, I was slightly wrong that Democrats had repeatedly altered electors, really, when I was in my mind, on a gotcha question thinking and talking about how many Democrats have denied elections, how many Democrats sought to overturn Republican electors and make them faithless electors, how many electors have objected to an elector either as a senator or as a member of congress. So my comment was largely true, I had it slightly wrong.
RoJo then went into a tirade about how dare the media weree asking him about this now instead of asking him about the talking points that he prepared for. He said that showed how unserious the media is and was more proof of the Republican boogeyman of liberal media bias.
It should be noted that this comes after the fact that Kaitlan Collins called him out on his lies - again. Even the local paper felt compelled to fact check him and found his statements to be false. (They find it almost impossible to say a Republican's pants are on fire - that's how liberal they are.)
