Finally, as he testified, there was a call from another Trump supporter, Representative Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, on the morning of January 6, 2021, when the Electoral College vote was to be confirmed by a joint congressional hearing. Mr. Biggs, he said, pushed him again to revoke the state voter certification for Mr. Biden. “We have no legal way” to “execute such a request,” Mr Bowers said. He also recalled his reaction when he learned that Trump advisers had launched a plan to put up “alternate” voter boards. “I thought of the book, ‘The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight,’” Mr. Bowers said. Mr. Bowers’s personal diary contained an entry in which he said, “I do not want to be a winner by cheating. “I will not play by laws to which I swore allegiance.” He was invited to read it in testimony. He was also asked to react to a statement by Mr Trump criticizing Mr Bowers’s testimony in advance, claiming that Mr Bowers had told him the election was “rigged” and that the state had won. “I had a conversation with the president,” Mr Bowers said. “Certainly not this.” A little while later, more emphatically, he said: “Everywhere, anyone, at any time said that I said the election was rigged – that would not be true.”
