Texts Reportedly Show GOP Lawmakers Aghast At Trump’s Efforts To Overturn Election After Initial Support

'We're driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic,' Rep. Chip Roy told Mark Meadows on January 1, 2021, according to CNN.

Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Chip Roy sent a series of text messages to then- White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election urging the Trump team to fight to overturn the election, according to

Lee reportedly texted Meadows on November 7, 2020, to state his"unequivocal support for you to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy at your disposal to restore Americans faith in our elections." The breaking point for the two seemed to come after a November 19, 2020, news conference where then-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell spouted a series of conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud.

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