{"id":1224737,"date":"2022-01-19T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224737"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:54:37","slug":"michigan-ag-absolutely-enough-evidence-to-charge-2020-gop-electors-seemingly-part-of-a-bigger-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-ag-absolutely-enough-evidence-to-charge-2020-gop-electors-seemingly-part-of-a-bigger-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan AG: \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Enough Evidence To Charge 2020 GOP Electors, Seemingly \u2018Part Of A Bigger Conspiracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-ag-absolutely-enough-evidence-to-charge-2020-gop-electors-seemingly-part-of-a-bigger-conspiracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) said Tuesday that there is \u201cabsolutely\u201d enough evidence to charge a group of Republicans with election fraud for falsely claiming to be the state\u2019s electors during the last presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Nessel has yet to pursue charges against the 16 Republicans, instead referring the investigation to federal prosecutors for jurisdictional reasons, she said according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/18\/dana-nessel-evidence-gop-electors-attorney-general-charges-prosecutors\/6564921001\/\">The Detroit News<\/a>. Nessel did not rule out pursuing charges against the Republicans in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeemingly there\u2019s a conspiracy that occurred between multiple states. So if what your ultimate goal is, is not just to prosecute these 16 individuals, but to find out who put them up to this, is this part of a bigger conspiracy at play in order to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, not just in Michigan but nationally? \u2026 It creates jurisdictional issues,\u201d Nessel said during a press conference, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/18\/nessel-gop-electors-crimes-lansing-michigan\/6563387001\/\">Detroit Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel confident we have enough evidence to charge if we decide to pursue that. Again, I want to make it clear, I haven\u2019t ruled it out. But for all the reasons I stated, I think that it\u2019s a better idea for the feds to pursue this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Republican Party slammed Nessel after the press briefing, accusing the Democrat of \u201cplaying political games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDana Nessel is playing political games with people\u2019s lives and livelihoods for the sake of scoring political points ahead of an election,\u201d GOP spokesman Gustavo Portela said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On December 14, 2020, a group of 16 Democratic presidential electors met in the state Capitol to certify themselves as Michigan\u2019s electors to cast votes in the 2020 presidential election. At the same time, a group of Republicans, including Michigan Republican Party Co-Chairwoman Meshawn Maddock and Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan Kathy Berden, met at the Michigan GOP\u2019s headquarters to sign a certificate declaring themselves to be Michigan\u2019s electors.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump in Michigan to win the state\u2019s 16 electoral votes. Biden won the state with roughly 150,000 votes more than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The group of Republicans sent their certificate claiming to be \u201cduly elected and qualified electors\u201d to the National Archives. Republicans in several other states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, also signed up alternate groups up electors as Republicans voiced concerns over election security and a number of election law changes adopted across some states because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Washington pushed for an emergency audit of the elections in states with competing slates of electors. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ted-cruz-other-gop-senators-sign-letter-announcing-intent-to-vote-against-electors-from-disputed-states-until-election-audit-is-conducted\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 10 other GOP senators have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=5541\">signed a letter<\/a>&nbsp;announcing they will vote \u201cto reject the electors from disputed states as not \u2018regularly given\u2019 and \u2018lawfully certified\u2019\u201d until a 10-day emergency audit can be conducted in those states.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it,\u201d Cruz wrote in the letter, which was released Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The letter states that the 2020 election \u201cfeatured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities,\u201d which exceed previous elections and must be investigated fully.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Senate certified the election for President Joe Biden early in the morning on January 7 after a riot in the Capitol building by pro-Trump protesters.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) said Tuesday that there is \u201cabsolutely\u201d enough evidence to charge a group of Republicans with election fraud for falsely claiming to be the state\u2019s electors during the last presidential election. Nessel has yet to pursue charges against the 16 Republicans, instead referring the investigation to federal prosecutors for jurisdictional &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}