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They legitimised the myth of a stolen election - and reaped the rewards

By Steve Eder, David D. Kirkpatrick and Mike McIntire
New York Times·
30 mins to read

On the day the Capitol was attacked, 139 Republicans in the House voted to dispute the Electoral College count. This is how they got there.

Five days after the attack on the Capitol last year, the Republican members of the House of Representatives braced for a backlash.

Two-thirds of them — 139 in all — had been voting on January 6, 2021, to dispute the Electoral College count that would seal Donald Trump's defeat just as rioters determined to keep

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