Opinion: Apparently, the congressman pushed early to overturn the presidential election results by getting Republican-controlled legislatures, like Arizona’s, to certify phony sets of electors.
By EJ Montini | Arizona Republic
It was an attempted coup and Rep. Andy Biggs was one of those offering aid, comfort and advice to those he hoped could pull it off.
He wasn’t alone, of course. Plenty of other Republican members of Congress were involved, as well as any number of private operatives, conspiracy kooks, white nationalists and others.
But in discussing the Jan. 6 insurrection and what led up to it, we tend to make it seem complicated.
It was not.
It was fairly simple.
A group of Republicans were angry that their guy lost the presidential race, so they spent the months between the election and the inauguration spouting completely unproven claims of election fraud in order to justify plans they were concocting to overthrow a duly elected president.
Period.
Biggs’ plan to use phony electors
Almost from the beginning we heard from the planner of the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally, Ali Alexander, that Biggs and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar were among those with whom he’d hatched his plan for the big Jan. 6 rally.
