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CNN first reported Friday on the almost 100 text messages Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, sent to [then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows] lobbying, encouraging and eventually warning the White House over its efforts to overturn the election.
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On Dec. 8, Lee texted Meadows saying, “If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a path” and in another text “I am working on that as of yesterday.” By Jan. 3, Lee was texting Meadows that the effort “could all backfire badly.”
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“When a sitting U.S. senator asks what he should say, he is freely admitting he is more concerned with playing D.C. games — with the politics of politics — rather than the people of Utah,” [Ally Isom, another Republican challenger] said in a statement, referring to a Nov. 20 text from Lee to Meadows. “Please give me something to work with,” Lee wrote to Meadows in that text. “I just need to know what I should be saying.”