Ron Johnson now says he helped coordinate effort to pass false elector slates to Pence, but his new explanation drew a quick rebuke

WASHINGTON - After at first professing to be "fundamentally uninformed" of a work by his staff to get phony official voter records to Vice President Mike Pence

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Thursday he facilitated with a Wisconsin lawyer to pass along such data,

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And affirmed a Pennsylvania senator carried records of phony voters to his office — a case that was quickly questioned.

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