CBS News
By Anderson Cooper, Aliza Chasan, Sarah Koch, Madeleine Carlisle
February 18, 2024 / 7:00 PM EST / CBS News
Former Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt was nominated to be an elector if former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020, but after Trump lost, Hitt and nine other Republican electors met at the state capitol and signed documents falsely claiming Trump won.
Hitt said lawyers told him the documents they were signing were meaningless unless Trump’s legal team won its lawsuit seeking to dismiss over 200,000 votes in two Democratic countie