The mainstream media has been saying since 2020 that Arizona is purple, or even turning blue, but people in Arizona know that was a fluke. Almost every candidate Donald Trump endorses in Arizona is expected to win, and even mainstream pollsters are predicting it. The only one who is not expected to win is Blake Masters for U.S. Senate, but that’s not because Trump endorsed him; a ton of things went wrong in that race, including him being outpolled by a staggering amount.
Longtime local news anchor Kari Lake had the most phenomenal success, beating a more moderate Republican in the primary who outspent her by a margin of four to one. With zero political experience and no campaign manager for most of the race, she did what few candidates have done—very much like Trump. She is often described as a more polished version of Trump. Because of her media experience, she skews interviews toward those who question her.
Although major polls had for some time shown Lake neck and neck with Democratic rival Katie Hobbs, Hobbs’s unwillingness to debate Lake even once and her low-energy campaign have made her tip Lake elections.
Then we have Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem, an election integrity advocate, who is taking on radical Democrat, former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes, is in the race for Arizona Secretary of State. Finchem leads Fontes by five points in the main Ohio Predictive Insights poll. He leads even more in the GOP Trafalgar poll. Fontes was such a failure as Maricopa County Recorder that even left-wing Arizona Republic ruined against him, contributing to his re-election defeat in 2020 — a supposedly good year for Democrats in Arizona. Earlier this year, he scared the electorate, Sending Votes for voters who failed to request them in the primary election, costing taxpayers more than $100,000 until Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued to shut them down.
Trump’s candidate for Arizona attorney general, Abraham Hamadeh, also has a five-point lead over Democratic rival Kris Mayes, according to a major HighGround poll. Mayes is doing so poorly in the race that the Democratic Attorneys General Association cutting nearly $500,000 in aid for her. The funding drop came just after her consultant discovered numerous tweets beating police and white people.
Hamadeh, who is only 31, has been criticized for practicing law for only two years, but Mayes doesn’t appear to have practiced law at all. During the debate, Mayes mentioned her experience of being “accused” while serving on the Arizona Corporation Commission, but Arizona Corporation Commissioner Jim O’Connor he called her and stated that no criminal proceedings are pending in connection with this work.
Trump has endorsed several candidates for Congress, including Eli Crane in a tight race in CD 2. Polls show he has a narrow lead.
Unfortunately, in Masters’ race against Kelly, he only managed to raise $9.7 million, while Kelly raised over $75 million. Strong Libertarian candidate Marc Victor pulled away essential Masters’s vote total. While most of Trump’s endorsements were great, this one was hotly contested. Most of the other candidates in the crowded five-person primary were about as conservative, and Brnovich, who had an impressive record as attorney general, aggressively attacking woke leftists, and was endorsed by Sean Hannity and Marc Levin, was considered the strongest candidate to take on Kelly. Masters spent most of his career working for Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who bankrolled Masters and helped him get endorsements, but because Millennial had no record, opponents dug up his negligent statements that continue to plague his campaign.
Many believe that Masters’ team planted false stories about Brnovich in the right-wing media, trying to portray him as tender on the issue of election fraud, when opposite was true. When Masters won the primary and the massive shots realized he was likely to lose, they didn’t bother supporting him. The Republican National Senatorial Committee didn’t put in as much money as it would have if Brnovich had won, a congressman told me. The Senate Leadership Fund cut $8 million in advertising. Trump reportedly contributed $100,000 to the primary, but nothing in total. And Thiel apparently didn’t contribute anything in total, either, even though he tried to do something efforts it didn’t work out.
Apart from Masters, Arizona candidates backed by Trump are well on their way to winning the midterm elections. But there is great fear across the state that voter fraud could derail their chances. Many believe there was voter fraud in the August primary. Rasmussen Reports, considered one of the most true polls, showed Lake up nine points just before the election, but she ultimately won by just a few points. Incidentally, Rasmussen he showedTrump wins Arizona by 4 points just before 2020 election
Conservative activists are doing everything they can to ensure there is little fraud in the election, but they face a hard task as recent information leaks out. Maricopa County hired 145 more Democrats than Republicans will fill the primary, even though Republicans are turning out en masse out of concern about voter fraud, and the county has far more registered Republicans than Democrats. The “bad” signatures were rejected 14 times more common during primaries than in the infamous 2020 election, raising concerns that AI could be easily manipulated to change the standard of evaluation.
A group of citizens shot movement to stop the exploit of electronic voting machine readers in elections, with some counties considering taking them away. Lake and Finchem filed lawsuit to stop using them. Citizens have organized monitoring changes at the polls, reporting suspicious activity using the recent nationwide reporting app Vote nowOn Election Day, the app will reveal to users what issues others in their area are reporting.
