'Didn't think they were doing anything illegal': GOP leader defends fake electors at RNC
Wisconsin Republican Party chief Brian Schimming was confronted by CNN's Kate Bolduan on Monday over why the GOP in his state is sending people who took part in the fake elector scheme as delegates to the national convention — and he was quick to defend them as "good Republicans" who didn't believe anything they were doing was against the law.
This defense, occurring amid the backdrop of several fake electors around the country being charged with crimes, comes as the Republican National Convention is set to begin this week, shaken up by the weekend assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
"There are seven battleground states, one of them, including Wisconsin, that some of the delegates that are coming are fake electors ... or others who had worked to upend the 2020 election results, to represent state parties when they're here," said Bolduan. "When I was looking at it, it's one fake elector as a delegate and one as an alternate for the Wisconsin, I'm going to call it the delegation."
"Are you okay with that?" she pressed him. "What does that say?"
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"What it says is there are a lot of good Republicans that were involved in these elector situations in some of the states who didn't believe they were doing anything illegal at all," Schimming replied. "So really we have good, good Republicans, as do other states, that are in their delegations that didn't feel as though they were doing anything wrong, and in some states that was the legal feeling on it too, so that's not an issue for us at all."
What matters more to the GOP, he added, is "coming out of here unified for Donald Trump in a state in the polling where, I mean, right now, those states you mentioned, Donald Trump is ahead in every single one of them."
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