Wisconsin 2020 fake elector reveals he was ‘scared to death’ of Trump losing state

Andrew Hitt, the former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, publicly admitted to being a “fake elector” forDonald Trump during the 2020 election.

Mr Hitt made the admission during a 60 Minutes appearance with Anderson Cooper on Sunday. Wisconsin is one of the few states where Republicans have not been charged for casting fake votes during the election but allegedly acted out on the scheme to help misrepresent the popular vote.

Mr Trump ultimately lost Wisconsin to President Joe Biden by around 20,000 votes. Mr Hitt told Cooper that he acted on the plan because he was “scared to death” of Mr Trump’s supporters in the state and his Republican colleagues.

“It was not a safe time,” he said in the interview.

Oftentimes during campaign rallies, Mr Trump would call out Mr Hitt and put pressure on him to ensure he won the state during the election. At one point, while on stage, he told him, “I’m going to blame you Andrew if they don’t do it,” an apparent reference to Mr Trump losing the state.

After the election, Mr Trump’s team filed a request to have 200,000 votes thrown out.

Those included ballots in which voters declared themselves indefinitely confined, had delivered absentee ballots at an October event hosted by the Madison city clerk, voters who cast ballots at in-person early-voting sites and absentee ballots submitted in which the voter’s witness did not provide a complete mailing address.

His campaign argued that municipal clerks in Milwaukee and Dane Counties should not have been able to fill out address forms for witnesses to absentee ballot submissions, even though the Wisconsin Elections Commission had allowed them to do so. State law requires that there be a witness to absentee ballots.

Mr Hitt said he