“Arizona is one of four states where Republicans have been charged in the formation of an alternate slate of presidential electors falsely claiming that Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Several top Trump allies were also charged in Arizona, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, and former campaign aide Mike Roman”
“The convening of the GOP electors was part of a legal and political strategy, according to records and prosecutors, to give Congress a foundation to raise the notion that the outcome of the election was in doubt”