Arizona House Speaker Rejects Trump Campaign Call to Overturn Election

Votes are counted by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office in Phoenix, on Nov. 5, 2020. Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images

Arizona’s Republican speaker of the House said that calls by members of President Donald Trump’s legal team and some Republican lawmakers to overturn the results of the presidential election aren’t lawful.

Rep. Rusty Bowers said in a Dec. 4 statement that the request that the Arizona Legislature overturns the certified results of the Nov. 3 election and delivers the state’s Electoral College votes to Trump “won’t materialize.”