Washington, DC (CNN) In the weeks following the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump's White House attempted to call the chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors — a key county in the state Trump lost by a small margin to then-candidate Joe Biden — according to a new report from the Arizona Republic published Friday. Hickman told The Republic that he allowed the calls to go to voice mail, where the White House's switchboard operator asked Hickman to call the President back. "It's not surprising," Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told CNN's Michael Smerconish on "Cuomo Prime Time" on Friday evening. "We suspected there were some attempts to undermine the election here, and now we have it clearly in tapes. Veronica Garcia drops off a ballot at the Maricopa County elections office in Phoenix on November 1, 2020.

Source: CNN July 03, 2021 03:56 UTC