Washington.- At the end of 2020, former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) pressured the then-governor of Arizona, Republican Doug Ducey, to annul the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden in that state, The newspaper reported this Saturday. Washington Post and CNN.
Trump had lost Arizona by less than 11,000 votes and allegedly asked Ducey to try to find evidence of fraud to discredit Biden’s victory, sources familiar with the Trump-Ducey conversations told The Washington Post and CNN.
Concretely, the two had a phone call in which Trump asked Ducey to reverse the Arizona election results.
Ducey told reporters in December 2020 that he had had a phone conversation with Trump, but the content of it was unknown until now.
The phone call that the media reported this Saturday is similar to the one that Trump had with the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, after the 2020 elections.
On that occasion, Trump asked Raffensperger to “seek” the votes that were necessary to annul Biden’s victory, according to an audio of the call made public at the time by The Washington Post.
In this case, there is no recording of the call between Trump and Ducey, who left the governorship of Arizona in January of this year.
The revelations come as the battle for the nomination to be the Republican Party’s candidate for the 2024 presidential election intensifies, in which Biden will run for re-election as the Democratic Party’s candidate.
There are 14 contenders for the nomination in the Republican field and, although Trump starts as the favorite, he is facing heavyweight politicians such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.
