Arizona GOP worried Trump and McSally will cost them the state: “Arizonans are fed up”
Trump and McSally's sagging poll numbers now threaten to flip both chambers of the state legislature to Democrats
Trump and McSally's sagging poll numbers now threaten to flip both chambers of the state legislature to Democrats
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Democratic nominee Joe Biden would become just the second Democrat to carry the state since 1948 if he can pull off a win, and Arizona would have two Democratic senators for the first time since 1953 if Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican appointed to her seat by Gov. Doug Ducey, loses her race to retired astronaut Mark Kelly. . .
"There are two [State] Senate seats that are vulnerable," (Bentz said), and it's the "same thing on the House side." He said he could imagine "a world in which both chambers ended up equally split … which would be unbelievable, but there's a pathway towards that. That might happen." . .
Felecia Rotellini, the chairwoman of the Arizona Democratic Party, told Salon that "Arizonans are fed up" with Republicans' "failure to control the spread of the virus." Along with Trump's widely-criticized federal response, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has seen his approval rating plummet into the 30s after infections spiked following the state's early reopening. . .
"We elected the first Democratic U.S. senator from Arizona in 30 years, secured three additional statewide victories, flipped a U.S. Congress seat blue — giving us a 5-4 Democratic congressional delegation majority — and increased Democratic representation in the state legislature," she said. "Now, in 2020, we've doubled-down on this strategy. We began organizing earlier than ever before, are building the largest Democratic organizing effort in our party's history and we have phenomenal leaders like astronaut Mark Kelly."
