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Andrew Hitt, who at the time of the 2020 presidential election was chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, said he felt pressured into signing papers falsely claiming to be one of the state’s presidential electors out of fear of reprisal from former President Donald Trump’s diehard supporters. In a 60 Minutes interview with journalist Anderson Cooper that was shared with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ahead of its national broadcast on Sunday, Hitt elaborated on why he went along with the scheme. Hitt told Cooper that he signed his name onto papers submitted to Congress, the National Archi…

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