The month after the presidential election in 2020, Democratic and Republican electors representing the candidate who won the popular vote in their states gathered across the country to formally cast electoral votes for president. But in seven states that Joe Biden won, Republican electors got together anyway and cast phony votes for Donald Trump. They've become known as fake electors.
And according to federal prosecutors, they were part of a plan to overturn the election, orchestrated by pro-Trump attorneys with Trump's support. State criminal charges have been filed against fake electors in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. Wisconsin's fake electors haven't been charged, and as we first reported in February, one of them, Andrew Hitt, an attorney and former chairman of the state Republican Party, agreed to sit down with us to explain how he says he and Wisconsin's other GOP electors were tricked by the Trump campaign.
Anderson Cooper: You were head of the Republican Party in Wisconsin. Were you a big Trump supporter? Andrew Hitt: I worked tirelessly for him. I, you know, day and night-- Andrew Hitt 60 Minutes ANDREW HITT: Let's put it together for the president of the United States one more time! Andrew Hitt: -- oftentimes phone calls would start by 6:00 in the morning, and wouldn't end until 10:30 at night.
I did everything I possibly could. DONALD TRUMP: The Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt. Andrew Hitt was often singled out by President Trump at rallies.
