Tag Archives: Arizona

From Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s exit interview with Semafor: In only a single term, Sinema has played an unusually integral role in bipartisan deals both big and small, on everything from infrastructure to gun safety to run-of-the-mill Senate floor operations. It’s a record that got clouded by her repeated breaks with her former party. She voted just last week to block …

Politico reports: Trump’s pick of longtime loyalist Kari Lake to lead Voice of America has some Arizona Republicans breathing a sigh of relief. Lake has for the last two election cycles dominated Republican politics in Arizona, running and losing back-to-back races for governor and Senate — and earning her the ire of some of her fellow conservatives in the state. …

NBC News reports: An Arizona man has been arrested after he allegedly posted videos online that showed him brandishing an AR-15-style rifle and threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump and members of Trump’s family, authorities said. Manuel Tamayo-Torres posted videos on a “near-daily basis” in which he accused Trump and the president-elect’s family members of kidnapping and sex-trafficking his children, …

The Arizona Mirror reports: After a bitter court battle, Kari Lake has entered a settlement agreement with Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer in a defamation lawsuit over Lake’s false accusations that he helped to steal the 2022 race for Arizona governor from her. She brought similar allegations about her own loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the race for governor …

The Arizona Republic reports: Ruben Gallego, a child of immigrants who found his way to Harvard, Iraq and Congress, was projected to defeat Republican Kari Lake on Monday night and in January will become Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator. The Associated Press, NBC and CNN called Gallego’s victory Monday after another batch of Democratic-heavy votes from Maricopa County confirmed Lake …

NBC News reports: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that she has “no intention” of dropping the criminal case against a group of President-elect Donald Trump’s allies who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Arizona. “I have no intention of breaking that case up. I have no intention of dropping that case,” Mayes, a Democrat, …

NewsNation reports: NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ has called the race for the U.S. Senate seat for Arizona in favor of Ruben Gallego. The race between U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Republican Kari Lake, who unsuccessfully ran for Arizona governor two years ago, was one of the closest watched Senate races this election cycle. Lake, a former news anchor, has been …

The Associated Press reports: The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome. The court made its refusal to take up the former TV anchor’s appeal public on Thursday without explaining its decision. Lake, now locked …

Arizona Central reports: Arizona voters have overwhelmingly approved a measure creating abortion rights in the state, guaranteeing access to abortion two years after federal protections were erased. Proposition 139, the Arizona Abortion Access Act, won the support of roughly two voters for each one opposed, according to election results as of early Wednesday. Arizona joins a string of states — …

The Arizona Mirror reports: A man already indicted for shooting at a local Democratic National Committee Office is facing new charges related to allegations that he posted anti-Democratic signs outfitted with razor blades and bags of white powder attached to them. Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested for his alleged involvement in four separate incidents of political violence. Police have …

Politico reports: “My internal polling looks good,” Kari Lake said in an interview from her campaign bus adorned on the outside with a massive photo of her and Trump and on the inside with a life-size cardboard Kari Lake cutout. “We’re ahead of my opponent, and I feel comfortable with our polling,” she insisted. “Our polling is a little different. …

The Arizona Republic reports: Tempe police arrested Jeffrey Michael Kelly on Tuesday night in connection with the shooting at three Democratic Party offices in Tempe and leaving bags of white powder on political signs in Ahwatukee Foothills. Kelly, 60, was charged with seven felony counts and three misdemeanor counts relating to the shootings, including terrorism and unlawful discharge, according to …

The Huffington Post reports: One of two rural Arizona county supervisors who faced criminal charges for refusing to certify the 2022 midterm results by a state deadline pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor of failing to perform her duty as an election officer. Coming two weeks before the Nov. 5 general election, the acknowledgment of guilt by Cochise County Supervisor …

The Wall Street Journal reports: “You’d have to be a psychopath to say you enjoy this,” said Maricopa County’s top election official for voting by mail, Stephen Richer [photo], a Republican. The building has added metal detectors and armed guards. On Election Day, as workers tabulate ballots behind new fencing and concrete barriers, drones will patrol the skies overhead, police …

Politico reports: Arizona was the epicenter for bogus claims about voter fraud and stolen elections four years ago. And with the 2024 election nearly two weeks away, the state’s top election administrator is bracing for another disinformation battle. “There’s no way to avoid the repeat,” Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes told the POLITICO Tech podcast. “We are the …

USA Today reports: Arizona Democrats closed their field office in Tempe, Ariz. after three shooting incidents. The office served as a base for the Sun State’s congressional campaigns and Vice President Harris’s presidential effort in recent weeks. The Tempe Police Department said the latest incidents on Oct. 6 involved gun shots fired at the Democratic campaign office at around 12:30 …

NBC News reports: Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego faced off in Arizona’s feisty first and only Senate debate Wednesday evening, trading shots over the border, abortion, tax policy and more. “We are at a crossroads, Arizona,” Gallego said in his opening statement, highlighting Lake’s repeated election denialism. “We’re going to see and talk to somebody who has …

The Hill reports: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has a ten point lead over Republican Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate race according to a Napolitan News Service poll released Monday. Fifty-two percent of voters said they would vote for Gallego, compared to 42 percent of respondents who said they would support Lake. Five percent of participants were unsure of who …

The New York Times reports: One sweltering morning in Phoenix, four workers from a Latino nonprofit stood with clipboards outside a motor-vehicle office to do the grunt work of democracy: persuading reluctant Americans to register to vote. While most people took a voter application or moved on, Vlad Stepanov, a conservative video blogger, stopped when he saw the canvassers. To …

Newsweek reports: Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake is trailing her Democratic rival Rep. Ruben Gallego in the 2024 Arizona race, according to a survey by Marist College released on Thursday. Gallego had 54 percent support among lively voters statewide, whilst Lake had 44 percent. With independents, Lake lagged behind on 32 percent compared to Gallego’s 64 percent. The Marist poll …