Following Trump's loss in the 2020 election and his failure to get the results overturned in courts or state legislatures, Miller announced a plan to send "alternate" slates of electors to Congress. On December 14, as the official electoral college votes were being tallied, groups of self-appointed Republican "alternate electors" met in several swing states and voted for Trump. Since their alternate slates are not signed by the governors of the states they claim to represent, they have no legal status, but could have been introduced as challenges to the results when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6, 2021. On January 6, Trump held a rally at which he incited his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol; Miller prepared the remarks that Trump delivered at the rally.