Trump and Giuliani’s Arizona pressure campaign backfires in plain sight
New reporting and later-corroborated court materials point to Trump and Rudy Giuliani pressing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on November 22, 2021 with false claims about election fraud, trying to get him to help replace the state’s legitimate electors. It was a desperate push to turn a statehouse into a redo button for a lost election, and it only reinforced how far Trump’s circle was still willing to go with claims that had already been rejected again and again.
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Trump and Giuliani’s Arizona pressure campaign backfires in plain sight
New reporting and later-corroborated court materials point to Trump and Rudy Giuliani pressing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on November 22, 2021 with false claims about election fraud, trying to get him to help replace the state’s legitimate electors. It was a desperate push to turn a statehouse into a redo button for a lost election, and it only reinforced how far Trump’s circle was still willing to go with claims that had already been rejected again and again.
New reporting and later-corroborated court materials point to Trump and Rudy Giuliani pressing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on November 22, 2021 with false claims about election fraud, trying to get him to help replace the state’s legitimate electors. It was a desperate push to turn a statehouse into a redo button for a lost election, and it only reinforced how far Trump’s circle was still willing to go with c…
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