“In all those instances the political parties themselves found zero variance in all three elections,” said Scott Jarrett, Maricopa County’s director of election day and emergency voting, referring to three elections this year. In all, Biden flipped 60 precincts in Maricopa County that Trump won in 2016. Ward's efforts to court Latinos are helped by people like Reymundo Torres, a top operative for the Arizona Latino Republican Association, who said a successful Latino outreach effort by Trump in Arizona would be winning over 40% of Latino voters in Arizona. "Ten years ago, if you wanted to be politically relevant and if you wanted your vote to have an impact, you were foolish to be registered as a Democrat because they failed to field a candidate for some offices and even then it was just volunteering to get killed in the general by the Republican," said Giles. “Democrats need to do a better job of listening and relating to people who go to Cracker Barrel and Wal-Mart, and Republicans need to do a better job of communicating with soccer moms,” he said. The sentiment that Biden voters are more often voting against Trump than for the Democratic nominee is clear in polls: The recent survey of Arizona by CNN found that 48% of Biden supporters are voting against Trump, as opposed to 45% who feel they are voting for the former vice president. And in that precinct only 24 ballots were cast. This year, he said he was voting for Trump four years after not voting at all. Conversations with more than three dozen voters in Maricopa County revealed an area shaped by the ongoing pandemic, one where the politicization of the virus was on full display. Campbell said this is a trend that Democrats need to address. The lawsuit asked a court to let one person who alleged a tabulator rejected her ballot to recast her vote. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret Mahoney announced her plans immediately after lawyers made closing arguments at a hearing, though she didn’t detail her reasons for wanting to throw out the case. "If you want to go back and say he could have done this, he could have done this, of course he could have. • Associated Press reporters Terry Tang and Jacques Billeaud contributed. "And quite frankly, many of the folks who voted for him in 2016, a lot of those people voted more against the Democratic nominee as opposed to voting for Trump," Campbell said. Protesters marched outside the board chambers urging members not to approve the canvass, but Republican Chairman Clint Hickman said there’s no question about the accuracy of the count and no legal reason not to certify it. Coughlin said the results in independent and Republican-leaning precincts show a path for Democrats to continue to make Maricopa County a “swing place” in Arizona elections. The confluence of a growing population, a conservative party shifting right and a personally divisive incumbent has put Maricopa County in the swing column for the first time in a generation. Chad Heywood, who was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party from 2013 to 2016, said Pima County continued to be a lost cause for Trump and the GOP. "That was huge for me. “I don't think any one group can say, ‘It's because of us,’” said Ron Ober, a Democratic campaign consultant in Phoenix. Associated Press “People like definitive, absolute answers, but I think it means Arizona is going to be a competitive state for a very long time.". The retired truck driver who lives in Mesa described the President as "the best man" for the job. During the hearing, lawyers who filed the case tried to admit into evidence a photograph of a ballot taken inside a polling location, but later backed off that effort when it was explained that it’s a crime to take photos within 75 feet of a polling place. YouTube suspends conservative One America News Network over COVID-19 misinformation policy "Even six years ago, in 2014, we were a deep red state, Republicans won everything.". The precincts running “all the way down the 101 corridor into Chandler” are filled with voters who are more affluent and moderate — either center-right or independent voters — with plenty of female voters, Coughlin said. Board members heard extensive reports from county elections officials who said the vote count was correct and noted that all tests and hand-count reviews showed the electronic ballot count was 100% accurate. These independent and Republican-leaning areas are more educated and affluent than the state as a whole — a demographic that in years past had broken for Republicans, but swung to Democrats in the Trump era. These shifts, along with others, helped Biden pull out a win in Arizona by less than 11,000 votes. Trump still lost precincts in those areas by huge amounts, but the margins narrowed. Trump did have some Latino support in conversations with voters across the Salt River Valley. Republicans hope one bright spot in Maricopa could come from an unexpected place: Latino voters. Describing how she saw Trump claim that the country was rounding the turn on the virus, Whitmire said, "It's just not my reality.".
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