Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was contacted by the special counsel investigating attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, an aide to the former governor confirmed Tuesday.
Ducey was one of Donald Trump's many targets — several of them in Arizona — in the former president's efforts to stay in power after his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden three years ago. Trump lost Arizona to Biden by 10,457 votes, the first time in decades a Democrat carried the state.
Former Ducey chief of staff Daniel Scarpinato confirmed Ducey was contacted as part of the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, but declined to share details of the interaction.
"He’s been responsive, and just as he’s done since the election, he will do the right thing," Scarpinato said. CNN was first to report the outreach to the former Republican governor.
Ducey is widely noted for standing up to Trump's pressure campaign, famously doing so by silencing a call from Trump as Ducey signed off on the 2020 election results.
But prior to the election, Ducey had a supportive but tenuous relationship with the president. He touted the state's mail-in voting system during a White House meeting at Trump's side, appeared at Trump rallies, and his aides offered advice to Trump's team on winning Arizona.
The two soon exemplified the division within GOP politics, however. Ducey — on the outs as a punching bag for Trump after refusing to change Arizona's results — led an effort last year to elect...
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