Scroll back up to restore default view. USA TODAY Miss Day 4 of the Jan. 6 hearing? Fake electors, Trump pressuring state leaders and more. Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY Tue, June 21, 2022, 4:41 PM·7 min read The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots used its fourth public hearing on Tuesday to examine how former President Donald Trump leaned on state officials to try to illegally overturn the 2020 election.At the center of the plot were efforts by Trump allies to press for alternative slates of electors, who would eventually flip the Electoral College results against then-candidate Joe Biden.In order for that strategy to work, the panel's leaders said, the former president needed state officials across the country in key battlegrounds to comply.Trump tried to do this through a massive pressure campaign that he administered either directly or through surrogates or supporters, who lawmakers said often used threats of violence against civic leaders."In fact, pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, chair of the committee. “A handful of election officials in key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy."Many Americans have already heard Trump’s infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he demanded the election official "find" more votes after losing the Peach State.But the committee heard from other state and local election leaders, who expressed similar situations where they were asked by Trump or campaign surrogates to change the results.Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee's vice-chair, said Trump didn't care that his false claims about the 2020 election were an engine of the violence."Don't be distracted by politics. This is serious,” she said. "We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence."Here are the highlights from Day 4 of the hearing:GOP Arizona speaker testifies One of Tuesday's blockbuster witnesses was Republican Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the House in Arizona.Bowers, who campaigned for Trump in 2020, explained to the committee how in multiple ways the former president and his re-election campaign tried to get him to support false claims about the election. He denied, for instance, ever saying the election was "rigged" as Trump claimed he did in a statement.Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers testifies to the Jan. 6 committee hearings on June 21, 2022. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers testifies to the Jan. 6 committee hearings on June 21, 2022.