Arizona one of seven state legislatures Democrats target for takeover
WASHINGTON – Arizona was identified Thursday as one of seven states where Democrats plan to “fight like hell” to turn the state government from red to blue in 2020.
Democrats still are in the minority in the Arizona Senate and House of Representatives. But after gains in the 2018 elections, political experts in the state say a Democratic takeover is not out of the question, and one national Democratic organizer said she is “in it to win it in Arizona.”
“These dark red states are the targets that we believe we can flip this year,” said Jessica Post, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which kicked off its Flip Everything campaign Thursday.
Along with Arizona, the campaign is targeting statehouses in Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. It has already put $1 million to support local Democrats running for state legislatures, by offering resources, training and support in those states, including $100,000 in early funding for the Arizona DLCC.
Post said the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is planning to raise and spend $50 million nationwide in this election cycle.
Mike Noble, chief of research of OH Predictive Insights, said the campaign committee’s goal of flipping the Arizona Legislature is not “unrealistic at all.”
“I would say Democrats that have typically been pretty downtrodden in the historically ruby-red state of Arizona, they’re emboldened this cycle,” Noble said. “It is very close now that the share of power could easily flip in the legislature.”
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