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Borrelli retains Senate seat by defeating Gould in LD5
Rep. Sonny Borrelli defeated Republican Ron Gould in the race for the Legislative District 5 Senate seat.
Burns, Tobin and Dunn win GOP race for the Corporation Commission
Commissioner Bob Burns, who has made transparency in electioneering activities as the lynchpin of his bid for re-election, has won the Republican primary race for the Arizona Corporation Commission, according to the Associated Press.
Hamway, Syms lead in Phoenix’s LD28
Republicans Maria Syms and Mary Hamway easily beat the rest of the pack in the five-way GOP primary for two House seats in central Phoenix’s Legislative District 28.
Schmuck uses Army Reserve accusations to defeat incumbent Dial in LD18
Republican Frank Schmuck upset incumbent Sen. Jeff Dial in the Legislative District 18 Senate primary, capitalizing on a campaign mounted almost exclusively on Dial’s questionable status as an Army veteran.
McCain crushes Ward in primary, will face Kirkpatrick in general election
Kelli Ward’s longshot Republican primary challenge against John McCain ended with a whimper as the senior senator trounced her in his quest for a sixth term.
Republicans edge independents as largest Arizona voter bloc
Republicans now account for the largest bloc of Arizona's 3.4 million registered voters, outnumbering independents for the first time since January 2014.
Pollster George Khalaf: His heritage drew him to the Republican Party
Growing up in Arizona, George Khalaf often heard stories about a distant land called Lebanon, from which his parents fled following that country’s civil war.
For Log Cabin Republicans, ‘gay conservative’ is not a contradiction
Matthew Shuman looks forward to voting for Donald Trump this fall and said he agrees with the Republican Party on most everything, including its policies on national security, gun rights and economic liberalism.
Moderates vs. conservatives as Republicans scramble in East Valley’s LD12
Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs’ decision to run for Congress has had a domino effect in Legislative District 12, as Republicans scramble to fill the Senate seat left vacate by the 14-year lawmaker.
U.S. Senate hopeful Meluskey withdraws from GOP primary
U.S. Senate candidate Alex Meluskey suspended his campaign to “clear the way” for John McCain’s other Republican challengers, though the move may have a limited impact for Kelli Ward because his name will still be on the ballot.
The positive calm before the negative storm
There is no shortage of material the Republican CD5 candidates could use as the basis for attacks on each other, but the race has so far been genteel, largely devoid of name-calling and mudslinging that are often hallmarks of hotly contested primaries.
Arizona GOP told it has work to do to reach millennials, independents
Republican pollster Frank Luntz told Arizona delegates Thursday that the Grand Old Party needs to focus less on the “old” if it hopes to remain relevant in the future.
