The Arizona attorney general's office issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people linked to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign as part of its investigation of an alleged attempt to use alternate electors to benefit Trump, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Six people with information about the subpoenas shared the information with Politico.
Democrat Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office is allegedly looking into the “alternate electors" who signed a document sent to the National Archives that falsely claimed Arizona voters elected Trump in 2020.
Prominent Arizona Republicans with ties to the effort include former state GOP Chair Kelli Ward and state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, Politico reported.
Mayes' office in March 2023 opened an investigation into the Trump campaign's efforts in the state.
“We are almost at a crisis situation in our state, in the sense that we now have a third of our counties experiencing the loss, or should I say the resignation, of a high-level election official due to death threats and harassment. That is unacceptable," Mayes told the Arizona Mirror at the time.
George Terwilliger, an attorney for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told Politico of the report: “As the Supreme Court made clear yet again in the Trump v. Anderson decision, federal elections are federal matters. The fiasco in Georgia demonstrates what happens when state officials take it upon themselves to police federal matters."
Meadows was one of 18 people indicted along with the former president for allegedly participating in a wide-ranging effort to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.
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