Kelly denies connection to alternate electoral votes
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, claimed the office of a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania provided his office with alternate slates of electors in connection with the 2020 presidential election in a radio interview Thursday.
Johnson told Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna the documents, which contained fabricated electoral college votes from Michigan and Wisconsin, and which Johnson’s office sought on Jan. 6, 2021, to give to then-Vice President Mike Pence, came from the office of U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th. Kelly’s office denies the allegations.
“We found out, now, this came from Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly’s office. We couldn’t even remember who’d given this to us,” Johnson said. “We didn’t know what it was. We thought it was documents involved in the electors.”
Kelly’s spokesman, Matthew Knoedler, said Thursday that Johnson’s allegations are false.
“Sen. Johnson’s statements about Rep. Kelly are patently false,” Knoedler said. “Mr. Kelly has not spoken to Sen. Johnson for the better part of a decade, and he has no knowledge of the claims Mr. Johnson is making related to the 2020 election.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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