Democracy in Doubt, Ep 1: White House phone calls and baseless fraud charges, the origins of the Arizona election review

Over the course of four months, The Republic examined a trove of
text messages, emails and court records, many made public after
suing the state for access. Reporters spoke to decision-makers,
consultants, staff, contractors, campaign aides and others tied to
the review of the presidential and U.S. Senate races. Some talked
on the record about their experiences, while others spoke on the
condition they not be identified in order to speak candidly about
private conversations.   The Republic uncovered efforts
to circumvent the popular vote to engineer an illegitimate Trump
victory. Once the results were certified, Trump and his allies
shifted to a campaign to pressure local Republicans to overturn
election results from voters using an early ballot system largely
shaped over decades by their own party. In this first of a
five-episode series, Democracy in Doubt, The Gaggle hosts Yvonne
Wingett Sanchez and Ron Hansen walk you through the origins of the
Arizona election review and how that state plunged into a fog of
election conspiracies riven with partisanship and targeted by
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