Tag: Arizona
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Election 2024 live updates: Trump to rally in the Rust Belt; Walz to speak in Arizona
Election 2024 live updates: Trump to rally in the Rust Belt; Walz to speak in Arizona
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Arizona teen planned attack on Phoenix Pride festival, prosecutors say
A grand jury in Arizona indicted a teenager on terrorism charges, alleging he planned to attack participants at the Phoenix Pride Festival, authorities said Wednesday. The 17-year-old was indicted by a Maricopa County grand jury on one count of terrorism and one count of conspiracy to commit terrorism, both felonies, according to a statement from…
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Police arrest suspect in shooting incidents at Harris campaign office in Arizona
Police in Tempe, Arizona, have arrested a 60-year-old man suspected of shooting at a Democratic National Committee office over the last two months and hanging suspicious bags of white powder from politico signs in a nearby village. Police announced the arrest late Tuesday and identified the suspect as Jeffrey Michael Kelly. He was charged with…
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Arizona official pleads guilty in 2022 election certification case
A Republican county supervisor in Arizona pleaded guilty Monday after she tried to delay certification of the 2022 midterm election results, state Attorney General Kris Mayes announced. Peggy Judd, a Cochise County supervisor, pleaded guilty to failing to perform duties as an election officer, a misdemeanor. She acknowledged that she failed to canvass the election…
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Arizona is a top presidential battleground. But the Senate and House races there are taking place in their own universe.
PHOENIX — Mesa Mayor John Giles, a Republican who supports Kamala Harris for president, is vexed by the disconnect between Arizona’s presidential race and what’s happening down the ballot. Polls show Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake, the quintessential Donald Trump acolyte, losing a significant slice of the former president’s voters to her Democratic rival, Rep.…
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Barack Obama contrasts John McCain with Trump at Arizona rally
TUCSON, Ariz. — Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump’s character to that of the late Sen. John McCain during a packed rally at the University of Arizona. Obama, who faced off against McCain in his successful bid for the White House in 2008, offered only kind words for his onetime…
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Harris leans on ‘McCain Republicans’ to close the deal in Arizona
PHOENIX — Kamala Harris is staking her hopes of vanquishing Donald Trump in the pivotal state of Arizona by leaning on a familiar group of voters: moderate Republicans with an affinity for the late Sen. John McCain. Concentrated in the suburbs of Phoenix, those voters were decisive in 2020 in delivering the state for Joe…
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Arizona lawyers keep distance from GOP’s ‘election integrity’ operation amid concern over Kari Lake’s fraud claims
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Multiple Republican lawyers in Arizona say they and others who were involved in the party’s election litigation efforts in past cycles are keeping their distance this time around, in large part due to Senate candidate Kari Lake’s history of spurious fraud claims. Earlier this month, Kory Langhofer resigned his position as…
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Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake square off in sharp-edged Arizona Senate debate
PHOENIX — Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego faced off in Arizona’s first, feisty and only Senate debate Wednesday evening, trading shots over the border, abortion, tax policy and more. The barbs started before the moderators even asked a single question. ”We are at a crossroads, Arizona,” Gallego said in his opening statement.…
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Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego let rip with fiery criticisms ahead of their Arizona Senate debate
PHOENIX — Arizona starts its first day of early voting Wednesday and ends it with a pivotal moment in its battleground Senate race, as Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Ruben Gallego are set to face off in their first and only debate for the seat left open by retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Like the presidential…