GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Wisconsin US Senator Ron Johnson is standing by his investigation into the 2020 election.
Johnson, the Republican head of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, spoke on WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’, saying genuine questions exist about the voting irregularities across the country.
“They are legitimate questions–they may have legitimate explanations, but we can’t be afraid of the truth,” Johnson told host Earl Brooker.
The senator accused his Democratic colleagues of just that–fearing the truth–after his investigations were called “dangerous” by Senate Democrats.
“What’s dangerous about it?” Johnson asked. “We’re gathering information and trying to figure out what the truth is.”
Some of the issues Johnson’s committee has looked into turned out to have perfectly innocent explanations, something Johnson discussed.
“We debunked some of these claims,” he said. “We saw some votes switched in Pennsylvania. We looked into that and what happened was that a rookie reporter called in the results and mixed them up.”
Real concerns, Johnson argues, about the legality of the early voting process in Wisconsin and elsewhere do exist, despite arguments to the contrary from Democrats.
“Wisconsin is not an early voting state,” said Johnson. “We’re an absentee ballot state. Now, we do allow people to vote absentee in person at their clerk’s office, but it requires an application, yet, 170,000 absentee ballots were cast without an application.”
Johnson also said that issues with voter information uploads in Pennsylvania are suspicious, saying that voter information is still being added to the state website ten weeks after the election, and still doesn’t match the number of voters who actually cast a ballot.
The investigations into the 2020 election, nor the court cases brought by President Donald Trump’s campaign, have not resulted in any changes to the election results.
