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1. youtu.be/k-ojD3QAYfo?t=2724 . . . Hint: the electoral count act is unconstitutional—there is only one slate of electors- whatever the state leg says").

47. Break Up DC (@BreakItUp3), Twitter, June 15, 2022 7:40 p.m. ET, available at http://web.archive.org/web/20220615234134/https://twitter.com/BreakItUp3/status/1537218579225268225 (archived) (“She literally was advocating what I told whole Trump team in Oval- it's a fact - state legislatures can choose the electors- no matter what current state law OR state courts say . . . just ratify it amongst themselves That's WHY they call it a plenary power ever since Bush v. Gore.”).
48. Documents on file with the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (National Archives Production), 076P-R000008528_0001 - 076PR000008530_0001.
49. Documents on file with the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (National Archives Production), 076P-R000008528_0001-076PR000008528_0003, 076P-R000008530_0001 - 076P-R000008530_0002.
50. Documents on file with the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (National Archives Production), 076P-R000008528_0001 - 076PR000008528_0003, 076P-R000008530_0001 - 076P-R000008530_0002.
51. Documents on file with the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (National Archives Production), 076P-R000008531_0001, 076PR000008257_0001.
52. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Transcribed Interview of William Stepien, (Feb. 10, 2022), pp. 151-52.
53. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Transcribed Interview of William Stepien, (Feb. 10, 2022), p. 153. This fits with several major news reports at the time. The New York Times reported that President Trump went into the meeting on the 11th with “something he wanted to discuss with his advisors,” and “press[ed] them on whether Republican legislatures could pick pro-Trump electors in a handful of key states and deliver him the electoral votes he needs.” Maggie Haberman, “Trump Floats Improbable Survival Scenarios as He Ponders His Future,” New York Times, (Nov. 12, 2020, updated Nov. 23, 2020), available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/trump-future.html. Similarly, late on November 11th, the Washington Post reported that President Trump had “raised the idea of pressuring state legislators to pick electors favorable to him,” and the Wall Street Journal also called the option of state legislatures picking new electors “one potential strategy” discussed by his legal team. Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey & Ashley Parker, “Trump Insists He’ll Win, But Aides Say He Has No Real Plan to Overturn Results and Talks of 2024 Run,” Washington Post, (Nov. 11, 2020), available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-results-strategy/2020/11/11/a32e2cba-244a-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html; Rebecca Ballhaus, “What Is Trump’s Legal Strategy? Try to Block Certification of Biden Victory in States,” Wall Street Journal, (Nov. 11, 2020), available at https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-trumps-legalstrategy-try-to-block-certification-of-biden-victory-in-states-11605138852.
54. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Transcribed Interview of William Stepien, (Feb. 10, 2022), p. 148-49.
55. Senator Mitt Romney (@MittRomney), Twitter, Nov. 19, 2020 10:36 p.m. ET, available at https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1329629701447573504.
56. This figure is almost certainly a significant undercount, since it only includes public remarks by President Trump, public testimony, or the most noteworthy interviews conducted by one of his subordinates, but it does not include a review of every single remark targeting State or local officials during this period by those presidential subordinates.
57. This figure is also almost certainly an undercount, since it only includes those posts by President Trump’s campaign or advisors when they covered new ground that was substantially different from social media posts that were already made by President Trump. Also, many of these posts were replicated across multiple platforms.