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Trump narrowly lost to Joe Biden in Arizona.
Former President Donald Trump tried to put pressure on the then government. Doug Ducey to reverse the results of Arizona’s 2020 presidential election, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. First the Washington Post reported the allegations.
Sources also confirm to ABC News that Trump sent former Vice President Mike Pence to pressure Ducey to find fraudulent votes in the state, and that although Pence called Ducey several times in the aftermath of the election, he did not follow those orders .
Trump narrowly lost Arizona to Joe Biden in November 2020.
President Donald Trump (L) talks with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) during a working lunch with governors about freedom and workforce mobility in the Cabinet Room of the White House on June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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No recording of the conversation was made, sources told ABC News.
A Ducey spokesperson called this coverage “nothing more than a ‘copy and paste’ of a compilation of articles from the past two years disguised as something new.”
Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump looks on as he attends the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, NC, June 10, 2023.
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“Governor Ducey defended the results of the 2020 Arizona election, certifying the election, and he made it clear that the certification was a trigger for the filing of credible complaints supported by evidence. None were ever brought forward. The governor remains behind his action to certify the election and considers the issue in the rearview mirror – it’s time to move on,” the spokesman said in a statement.
Trump’s campaign, in response to the coverage, echoed the former president’s view that “the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen,” but did not refute the story.
“These witch hunts are designed to disrupt and interfere with the 2024 election, in an effort to prevent President Trump from returning to the White House to make this country great again,” the Trump campaign statement said.
