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The Washington Post said Friday it had obtained emails showing that Virginia Ginni" Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers to set aside Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state and choose a clean slate of electors".

Thomas wrote to two unidentified lawmakers on 9 November 2020, the newspaper says, six days after the general election, arguing they needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud.