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The following lawmakers and other individuals objected to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election by supporting protests and rallies claiming that the election had been ‘stolen.’
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Ali Alexander is a prominent election denier and right-wing conspiracy theorist who was raised in Fort Worth, Texas and gained national prominence in promoting the Big Lie after the 2020 presidential election.
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The attack began around 2 pm on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly after Trump finished speaking at the March to Save America rally, where he urged his supporters to proceed to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop the certification of the Electoral College results underway in a joint session of Congress.
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Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has represented Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021, when Trump’s endorsement helped her become the first woman to win in the Republican-leaning district. An extremist who supports QAnon and works to stand out as a firebrand, she was reelected in 2022 in a race that was so close it triggered an automatic recount.
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Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011–22, representing Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. He was a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus and claimed that during President Obama’s administration the Democratic Party had launched a “war on whites.”
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About Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was elected in 2020 to succeed Mark Meadows—Trump’s last, short-lived chief of staff—in representing North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In May 2022, he lost his bid to hold on to the seat in the GOP primary—despite Trump’s endorsement. Born in 1995, Cawthorn was 25 when he … Read more
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Cindy Chafian is a longtime conservative political activist who founded the Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC) shortly before the Jan. 6 insurrection—after allegedly being sidelined by the Women for America First organization that she had worked for on and off since 2019.
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Dan Cox is a far-right politician who represented the fourth district in the Maryland House of Delegates from January 2019–January 2023. A gubernatorial candidate in 2022, he won the Republican primary after receiving Trump’s endorsement but lost the general election in November.
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John Eastman is a right-wing lawyer and law professor who advised Trump on ways to hold on to the presidency despite losing the 2020 election. He has subsequently been subpoenaed by both the House Select Committee and the Justice Department in their ongoing investigations of the insurrection.
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Jenna Ellis is a right-wing Christian lawyer who served as a legal adviser to Trump during his final year in office. In October 2023, she admitted to breaking the law in supporting Trump’s false claims of election fraud and struck a plea deal with prosecutors in Georgia.
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Boris Epshteyn is a right-wing attorney and political consultant who was an advisor to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. In 2017, he became chief political analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reportedly worked with the 2016 Trump campaign to generate favorable coverage of the candidate.