Of the candidates seeking to upset a Republican incumbent this cycle, Senate candidate Mark Kelly has outraised every other Senate hopeful in the country.
Democrats are hopeful they'll be able to score wins in a state that last elected a Democrat to the White House nearly three decades ago. Arizona polls seem promising, and Democrats succeeded in winning a Senate seat in 2018, but Republicans say they are ready to defend the state.
Recent surveys of the state show Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, leading Mr. Trump among Arizonans. Biden's lead in polling mostly mirrors that of Democrat Mark Kelly, who is looking to unseat Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally. "To win in November, we are building upon our 2018 infrastructure and momentum that elected Democrats up and down the ballot," Felecia Rotellini, Arizona's Democratic Party Chair, told CBS News in a statement.
But in interviews with GOP strategists and party officials, Republicans insist they remain confident of their chances to defend the state, banking on a surge of enthusiasm unique to the president's supporters and pouring resources into a years-long effort to build out their operation in Arizona. "In 2016, it was vastly different in that we didn't nearly have the infrastructure on the ground in place, as early, as we do now in Arizona. That's a really important point.
Story continues"We were still cynical, believing the math. We were kind of an emerging battleground but we did not have a full engagement as a battleground state with early investment," says Luis Heredia, who served as political director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 primary bid in the state. Heredia now leads Arizona's largest teachers union."Now, we have a battleground state status that is real. We would not have had Trump visiting our state today," he said later.
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