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The Electoral Committee of the House of Representatives will hold its second public hearing this month on Monday, starting at 10 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT), after a blockbuster session on Thursday night with testimony showing that Trump’s close allies – even Ivanka’s daughter – rejected the false allegations of vote-rigging. read more Monday’s hearing, the second of six expected, will focus on former Republican President Joe Biden’s defeat in the November 2020 election due to baseless allegations of electoral fraud, the so-called “Big Lie.” read more Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register The first panel of witnesses will include William Stepien, who served as campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 campaign, having served as the White House’s Director of Political Affairs from 2017 to 2018. An aide to the committee, speaking on condition of anonymity for the hearing, declined to comment on whether Stepien was expected to witness the controversy. Stepien’s company is now working with Harriet Hageman, a Trump-backed candidate running against Liz Cheney, the vice-chairwoman of the Electoral Commission, on Jan. 6 in the Republican primary in Cheney, Wyoming. The first panel will also feature Chris Stirwalt, a former political editor of Fox News. Stirwalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after Fox News’s political office was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020. Fox has denied that his departure had anything to do with the call. The second panel will include conservative Republican electoral lawyer Ben Ginsberg. Byung J. Pak, who resigned as U.S. attorney in Atlanta as Trump camp campaigned to overthrow Georgia, and Al Schmidt, the only Republican on the Philadelphia Electoral Council, was attacked by Trump after defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. Georgia and Pennsylvania were among the states that supported Trump in the 2016 election, but fell in Biden’s column in 2020. They have been at the center of baseless allegations of electoral fraud. The committee aide said the hearing would also include testimonies from more than 1,000 testimonies and interviews conducted during the nearly one-year Democratic-led Select Committee’s inquiry into the events before and during the attack. Capitol. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Patricia Zengerle. Editing by Chris Reese, Daniel Wallis and Kenneth Maxwell Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.