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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino

Arizona Democrats’ No 1 message: ‘Republicans want to destroy our democracy’

‘We saw in the 2022 and 2023 elections when the Democratic party puts … resources behind the president’s agenda, it really is a winning message.’
‘We saw in the 2022 and 2023 elections when the Democratic party puts … resources behind the president’s agenda, it really is a winning message.’ Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Few states will have more influence over the country’s political future than Arizona. Once a ruby-red Republican stronghold, it is now a south-western battleground and the stakes couldn’t be higher for Arizonans – or Americans.

In 2020, Joe Biden carried Arizona by just over 10,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in nearly a quarter-century. Two years later, Democrats won statewide races for governor, secretary of state and attorney general and re-elected the Democratic senator Mark Kelly to a full six-year term.

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