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Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman (above) knows politics can be a cutthroat business, but he never imagined that his own Republican party would be holding the blade against his neck.
“I’m not used to this,” he told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show on Tuesday. “I’ve been a Republican since my first vote for President Reagan in the ‘80s, and I’m not used to having people on my own team shoving bayonets in me.”
On Friday, The Arizona Republic published text messages and voicemails obtained through public information requests that showed Hickman and other supervisors being pressured by fellow Republicans to act on behalf of Trump to prevent Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Hickman was chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which is controlled 4-1 by Republicans, during the November 2020 general election. He was reelected but no longer serves as chair on the powerful board, which governs a region that includes Phoenix and 60% of Arizona’s voters.
