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Arizona lawmaker says his LDS faith prevented him from participating in efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss

“I do not want to be a winner by cheating,” Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers tells the Jan. 6 select committee.

(Doug Mills | The New York Times) Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., swears in Rusty Bowers, Arizona state House Speaker, and others as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers told a congressional hearing on Tuesday that his faith in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and oath to uphold the Constitution is why he refused to go along with a scheme to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.

(Doug Mills | The New York Times) Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., swears in Rusty Bowers, Arizona state House Speaker, and others as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers told a congressional hearing on Tuesday that his faith in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and oath to uphold the Constitution is why he refused to go along with a scheme to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.

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