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Here’s why Democrats’ elusive dream of a blue Arizona won’t happen this year – unless…
With only a 6-point difference in voter registration between the GOP and the Democratic Party and more than one-third of voters registering as independents, some experts view Arizona as a potential swing state.
Jan Brewer is Cleveland-bound, after all
Brewer, perhaps Trump’s most prominent and vocal surrogate in Arizona, will join the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention after all, if only as an alternate.
Arizonans gave Trump their votes but not their dollars – yet
He may have received close to half the primary votes in the state, but presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump got just 3 percent of the money Arizonans gave to 2016 Republican presidential campaigns, according to the latest campaign finance numbers.
Judge tosses Begody-Begay from election ballot
A GOP candidate once touted by the Arizona Republican Party as tough-to-beat in the Democratic stronghold of Legislative District 7 won’t even be on the ballot in August.
It’s harder than you think
Trump’s regular outbursts – his promise to act more presidential has yet to be fulfilled – are causing all kinds of complications for Republicans who want to be seen as inclusive but are also wary of alienating the presumptive GOP nominee’s supporters.
Suddenly, everybody’s just kind of busy
Brnovich, DeWit, Reagan and M Zuhdi Jasser are in good company after stepping down as delegates to the Republican National Convention. According to Arizona Republican Party spokesman Tim Sifert, five others have also resigned as delegates.
GOP fundraiser with ties to anti-pot campaign arrested in massive drug bust
Emily Pitha, a fundraiser for establishment Republicans, was arrested this week following a police raid on her Phoenix home that found a meth lab, cocaine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy and the beginning of a marijuana grow-house.
McCain to skip GOP convention to focus on election, campaign says
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, will not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July but will be “working and campaigning throughout Arizona,” a campaign official confirmed Tuesday.
The Never Trump strategy?
Some longtime Republican activists are speculating that the Arizona Republican Party’s decision to allow the use of proxy votes at the 40 district and county meetings (where 1,251 delegates to the party’s April 30 state convention were elected) is not only a break from decades of precedent, but potentially a strategy to undermine Trump.
Cruz, Trump move to next phase in Arizona delegate fight
In most presidential election years, the selection of delegates to the national conventions is of little import. But with Cruz and Trump preparing to slug it out at what’s expected to be the first brokered Republican convention in decades, those delegates have taken on a new significance.
GOP official rails over effort aimed at nomination rules
In an extraordinary display of internal discord, the chairman of the Republican Party's rules committee accused top GOP officials Saturday of "a breach of our trust."
