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What did Trump's team do in Arizona?
Trump's campaign to overturn the election began immediately after his 2020 loss when his lawyers and the president himself pressured the Arizona Legislature to somehow reverse the election.
The campaign included Trump lawyer Giuliani visiting the state shortly after the election and hosting a meeting at a downtown Phoenix hotel where he stirred concerns about the state election.
U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, both Arizona Republicans, attended, sitting behind Giuliani as the lawyer made outrageous claims about Arizona's election. At one point in the hours-long meeting, Giuliani suggested Arizona had 5 million "illegal aliens" living in the state, which only had a total population of 7.3 million at the time, and nowhere near that number of undocumented residents.
Its organizer, state Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, had sought approval for a meeting of the House Federal Relations Committee, which he chaired, but never received it. And the Legislature’s own lawyers said in a written opinion after the election that state law requires Arizona’s electors to cast their support with the presidential candidate who won the most votes, a provision they said lawmakers could not revise retroactively to affect the 2020 election.
Trump's campaign to overturn the election began immediately after his 2020 loss when his lawyers and the president himself pressured the Arizona Legislature to somehow reverse the election.
The campaign included Trump lawyer Giuliani visiting the state shortly after the election and hosting a meeting at a downtown Phoenix hotel where he stirred concerns about the state election.
U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, both Arizona Republicans, attended, sitting behind Giuliani as the lawyer made outrageous claims about Arizona's election. At one point in the hours-long meeting, Giuliani suggested Arizona had 5 million "illegal aliens" living in the state, which only had a total population of 7.3 million at the time, and nowhere near that number of undocumented residents.
Its organizer, state Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, had sought approval for a meeting of the House Federal Relations Committee, which he chaired, but never received it. And the Legislature’s own lawyers said in a written opinion after the election that state law requires Arizona’s electors to cast their support with the presidential candidate who won the most votes, a provision they said lawmakers could not revise retroactively to affect the 2020 election.

