Arizona a top Dem priority for president, Senate, legislature
In their effort to defeat President Donald Trump, win a U.S. Senate seat and flip control of the state legislature, Arizona Democrats are launching what they say will be their largest-ever effort to organize voter outreach.
The effort, dubbed “Mission for Arizona,” is the Arizona Democratic Party’s coordinated campaign with the Democratic National Committee. Although primarily focused on electing Mark Kelly to the Senate – a top priority for national Democrats – the campaign will work to bolster Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
“Republicans got their butts whipped in Arizona in 2018, and we’re making investments to make sure Democrats win again in 2020,” said DNC spokesman David Bergstein.
Although Arizona was nominally seen as competitive in the 2016 presidential contest, national Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign spent little money campaigning here. Even still, Clinton lost to Trump by only 3.5 percentage points, a far closer race than four years earlier, when Mitt Romney carried the Grand Canyon State by 9 points.
Two years later, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Arizona since 1988. Democrats also made gains in legislative races, leaving Republicans in the state House of Representatives with a slim 31-29 majority.
https://www.azmirror.com/2020/02/18/arizona-a-top-dem-priority-for-president-senate-legislature/
