03:25 - Source: CNN
Washington, DC
CNN
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In the weeks following the 2020 election, former President Donald Trumpâs White House attempted to call the chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors â a key county in the state Trump lost by a small margin to then-candidate Joe Biden â according to a new report from the Arizona Republic published Friday.
The attempted calls appear to be part of a pressure campaign led by his then-personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to convince then-chair of the Board of Supervisors â Republican Clint Hickman â and other members of the elected body that supervises elections in Maricopa County to announce that there were voting irregularities in their county, as litigation related to the election continued in the state, according to records obtained by the Republic.