Day four of the Jan. 6 hearings focuses on Trump’s pressure on Raffensperger, other state officials

The fourth hearing of the Democrat-led House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tuesday focused on state-level election officials who testified about then-President Trump's claims of election fraud. 

The key witness was Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, asked by Trump to investigate the results of the 2020 presidential elections in his state, with Trump's belief that there were enough fraudulent ballots to reverse the outcome and make him the winner.

Committee leaders played audiotapes of Trump's calls to Raffensperger.

"I think you're gonna find that they are shredding ballots, because they have to get rid of the ballots," Trump is heard saying on one phone call to Raffensperger. "The ballots are corrupt."

Raffensperger said that he maintained his position that the Georgia election was not rigged nor subject to fraud.

"What I knew is that we didn't have any votes to find," Raffensperger told committee, according to the Los Angeles Times. "There was no shredding of ballots."

Arizona State House Speaker Rusty Bowers told the committee he "never" received any evidence of fraud from Trump or Trump lawyer Rudy Giulliani, despite their claims otherwise.

Bowers said Giulliani told him: "We have lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence."

Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Georgia' Fulton County, told the committee her life took a bad turn after the election as a result of Trump pushing the idea that it was stolen. 

'I've lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with [Trump] and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen," Freeman said.