The general election, which many people — including the writer — feel could decide the ultimate fate of the last beacon of freedom in the world, is only six weeks away. Time flies, right? As of right now, it looks like former President Donald Trump is now leading over Vice President Kamala Harris in the critical battleground state of Arizona. Let’s hope that lead continues to grow. Trump needs every state possible in order to ensure a massive victory over Harris that Democrats can’t argue with.
A poll that was done by USA Today/Suffolk University shows that the former president is ahead of Harris by a total of 6 percentage points. The race is close in the largest county in the state, Maricopa, however Trump is ahead 47 percent to 43 percent. Almost half of the Latino voters in Arizona, 47 percent, are backing the vice president. Trump has pulled in 35 percent of the Latino vote.
According to Trending Politics News:
According to the USA Today poll, Trump’s current lead in Arizona poses challenges for Harris, who initially experienced a surge in the state’s polls after she replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic frontrunner. In the last two presidential elections, Arizona has been a competitive battleground state. Both Harris and Trump are actively campaigning in the state; Harris recently visited Douglas, AZ, while Trump hosted a rally in Tucson earlier this month. Both campaigns have dispatched their top surrogates to Arizona in recent weeks.
In 2016, Trump narrowly won the state, continuing Arizona’s trend of voting Republican since 1996. However, in 2020, the state flipped blue for the first time in over two decades, with Biden winning by a slim margin. Biden’s victory was attributed to changing demographics, including an increase in Latino voters and suburban voters shifting away from the GOP. Arizona’s electoral votes played a critical role in the overall outcome of the 2020 election.
According to the poll, inflation and the economy emerged as the primary concern for 27% of respondents. When questioned about the economic conditions in Arizona, only 5% described them as excellent, while 26% considered them good. Both “fair” and “poor” ratings stood at roughly 33% each. Overall, a majority of respondents, 52%, felt that they were worse off financially than four years ago, in contrast to the 39% who reported being better off.
Unsurprisingly, the most important issue to votes in Arizona is immigration, with 21 percent of voters saying it is their top issue. Of course, Trump is far better on immigration than Harris, who has actually served in the second highest office in the country and was appointed to solve the border crisis and failed. I mean, that’s what happens when you do absolutely nothing. The former president, in contrast, has promised that he will put his previous policies back in place and get even tougher by instituting mass deportations.
“Ana Keck, who supported Biden in the 2020 elections, has expressed a change of heart and intends to vote for Trump in the upcoming election. Keck cites her dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party’s management of the economy and foreign affairs, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, as the primary reasons for her decision. “I just don’t think that they’ve come up with the change that they said that they were going to come up with,” stated Keck, a 39-year-old resident of Scottsdale while reflecting on her disillusionment with the Democrats,” Trending Politics News concluded.
"*" indicates required fields
