Arizona officers ramp up investigation towards state GOP over 2020 election: Report

Arizona's Democratic lawyer common, Kris Mayes, is reportedly charging forward with a legal investigation into state Republicans over allegations of trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Mayes and state prosecutors are reportedly making progress within the case towards Arizona Republicans who claimed the final presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, in line with the Washington Put up.

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For the reason that legal investigation started in Could, the prosecuting workforce has contacted lots of Trump’s electors and their legal professionals and requested data and different info from native election officers, in line with the report. They've additionally inquired about proof gathered by the Justice Division and a prosecutor in Atlanta, each investigating related circumstances.

To overturn election leads to the state, Arizona GOP official allegedly signed and transmitted paperwork that claimed Donald Trump beat President Joe Biden in 2020.

Dan Barr, chief deputy for Mayes, informed the Washington Put up that the investigation stays in its “fact-gathering” stage.

“That is one thing we’re not going to enter pondering, ‘Perhaps we’ll get a conviction,’ or, ‘Perhaps now we have a reasonably good probability,’” he mentioned. “This must be ironclad shut.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to Mayes’s workplace for remark.