Arizona attorney general says she has ‘no intention’ of dropping fake electors case
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that she has “no intention” of dropping the criminal case against a group of President-elect Donald Trump’s allies who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
“I have no intention of breaking that case up. I have no intention of dropping that case,” Mayes, a Democrat, told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
“A grand jury in the state of Arizona decided that these individuals who engaged in an attempt to overthrow our democracy in 2020 should be held accountable, so we won’t be cowed, we won’t be intimidated,” she added.
A state grand jury in April charged over a dozen allies of Trump for allegedly attempting to send a slate of alternate electors to the Electoral College in 2020. Joe Biden won the state by several thousand votes that year, leading the state to certify a slate of electors for him.
Those charged include big names like former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Others charged include Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward; state Sen. Anthony Kern; Robert Montgomery, the former head of the Cochise County GOP; Republican Party activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino; Greg Safsten, the former Arizona GOP executive director; former Trump attorney Christina Bobb; and Tyler Bowyer, the Republican National Committee’s Arizona committeeman and chief operating officer of the Trump-aligned Turning Point Action.
All have been arraigned on the charges and pleaded not guilty.
The case is set to go to trial in 2026, but the defendants have sought to have the case dismissed.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
