When Donald Trump first refused to concede the election in 2020,

Republicans in Congress didn't really know what to do with it.

At the time, a lot of Republicans just kept their mouths ch up,

hoping that Trump would eventually give up.

But there were also the Republicans who went all in,

who started scheming with the Trump White House about how to keep Joe Biden

from being certified as the duly elected

president. And there was one congressman in particular who was way out in front of

that effort organizing a number of his colleagues to sign on to a highly dubious lawsuit challenging

Biden's victory in four key swing states.

Republican lawmakers are getting behind the suit, leading that effort on Capitol Hill

as Congressman Mike Johnson.

Let's talk about the suit.

What's behind it?

There is a lot of irregularity, fraud, and hijinks, let's be frank about it.

Look, we're going to have a landslide of House Republicans who are going to sign on to

our amicus brief to support this.

Mike Johnson, then a little-known congressman from Louisiana, was the driving force behind

congressional Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

He was the architect of a key part of Trump's legal strategy in trying to get election

results thrown out. And when House Republicans eventually ousted Speaker Kevin

McCarthy and ultimately settled on Mike Johnson to fill McCarthy's position.

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