Reports from The Washington Post and CNN reported that former United States President Donald Trump pressured the then-governor of Arizona, Republican Doug Ducey, in 2020 to annul Joe Biden’s electoral victory in that state during the elections. presidential.
In the controversial election, Trump lost in that state by at least 11,000 votes, and allegedly asked the governor to try to find evidence of fraud to discredit Biden’s victory, according to sources familiar with the conversations the two officials had at the time. two aforementioned means.
The information specified that they had a phone call in which the former president asked the governor to reverse the electoral results in Arizona, reported the EFE agency.
In December 2020, Ducey told the press that he had a telephone conversation with Trump, but the content of it has not been officially known so far.
The recent allegations bear similarities to the case Trump found himself in with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, with whom he had a phone call after the 2020 election.
In that controversy, Trump asked Raffensperger to seek the votes that were necessary in order to annul Biden’s victory in that state, according to a call made public by The Washington Post at the time.
However, there is no recording of the call between Trump and the Arizona governor. Ducey stepped down from him as governor of Arizona in January of this year.
The recent claims come amid an intense battle over Trump’s 2024 Republican nomination, while Biden has already announced he will run for the Democratic Party for re-election.
Trump, for his part, will have to face 14 candidates for the Republican nomination, despite having favoritism against his biggest contender, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, and who was the vice president of his administration, Mike Pence.
With information from the EFE agency
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