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Less than a month after a group of congressmen sent a similar letter, the following House Republicans signed a second letter to Attorney General Bill Barr requesting that he direct the Justice Department to investigate alleged procedural irregularities and fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) has represented South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011 and as a member of the House Freedom Caucus, he is a staunch Trump supporter who helped spread the Big Lie.
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Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) has served Idaho’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019. He fully supported the Big Lie and won reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement.
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Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) served Ohio’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 2011–23 and helped spread the Big Lie but chose not to run for reelection when Trump backed a different candidate in his newly redrawn district.
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Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005–22, representing Texas’ 1st Congressional District. He was one of Trump’s staunchest supporters in Congress and helped spread the Big Lie but failed to win the ex-president’s endorsement in his ill-fated attempt to win the 2022 GOP primary for attorney general in Texas.
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Jody Hice (R-Ga.) is an evangelical who represented Georgia’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015–22. He was a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, and chose to run for secretary of state in Georgia in 2022 instead of campaigning to keep his congressional seat.
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Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is a right-wing congressman who has represented what is now Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013. He became chair of the renegade House Freedom Caucus in January 2022 and is one of Trump’s staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill.