For most of her life, Marlene Galán-Woods was a member of Arizona’s Republican ruling class.
But she broke with the party as it lined up behind Donald Trump and took an increasingly restrictive stance on abortion. Now she is running as a Democrat in a Phoenix-area battleground congressional district.
On Thursday, Galán-Woods picked up the endorsement of EMILY’s List, a Democratic group that backs women who support legal access to abortion. The announcement came two days after Tuesday’s off-year elections signaled that reproductive rights remain a powerful issue for Democrats in red and purple states as well as in blue — and one they hope will offset President Joe Biden’s sagging approval ratings.
