President Trump’s legal team will hold a hearing with members of the Arizona state legislature on Monday, the same day the officials are expected to certify the state’s election results and give Arizona’s 11 electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden.
“We are pleased that the State Legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Michigan will be convening hearings to examine the November 3rd presidential election,” Trump’s personal attorney Jenna Ellis said.
According to the event website, Trump’s legal team will appear via video conference “to assist in a fact finding hearing with select members of the Arizona House and Senate and a panel of experts.”
???Arizona State Legislature to hold hearing on election integrity Monday, November 30. Mayor @RudyGiuliani and I will be present on behalf of President @realDonaldTrump.
https://t.co/b8ORVzEakP— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) November 27, 2020
The event was first announced in a press release earlier this week, but state senators told Cronkite News that “there is no legitimacy to that claim, and there are no hearings being held on that issue on Monday or any other day.”
On Friday, state Rep. Mark Finchem confirmed that he and other members of the Arizona legislature would participate in the hearing, which will be held at a Hyatt Regency in Phoenix. Finchem will lead the hearing.
The hearing has not been approved by a committee from either the state Senate or House of Representatives and does not appear on the legislature’s calendar.
“After a review of the statistical anomalies, and there are to numbers [sic] to count, affidavits of improper actions, and community outrage that has grown out of what appears to voters to be an attempt to throw the election through a number of fraudulent efforts, we decided as a Members [sic] of the Legislature, and not as members of any specific committee, that we should move forward with a public hearing,” Finchem wrote.
BREAKING: #ARIZONA State Legislature issues Notice to hold Hearing on Election Integrity Monday, November 30 2020#ArizonaHearing pic.twitter.com/Kedq7QkY4H
— Naty ?? (@NatyLiy) November 27, 2020
“There is no sanctioned hearing at the Senate or House,” Mike Philipsen, the Arizona Senate’s director of communications, told the Washington Examiner. “My understanding is a House member has set up a meeting at a local hotel to discuss possible irregularities in the election.”
Trump’s legal team dropped its lawsuit in Arizona after it was rendered moot, and a state judge threw out a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Republican Party seeking an audit of the votes cast on Election Day, according to CNN. The Trump team has since adjusted its tactics, attempting instead to convince state legislatures to select representatives to the Electoral College that would overturn the results of the election and vote for Trump.
The Washington Examiner reached out to members of the Arizona House and to Rudy Giuliani for further comment.
