The state Legislature will ask for a temporary block on a federal ruling that ordered them to redraw their districts because they diluted the Native American vote.
This week, a bipartisan group in Arizona officially launched its campaign to do away with the state s current system of primary elections - which are only open to people in the two major political parties. The goal is to get a measure on the 2024 ballot to make the state s future primary elections open to all candidates and all voters, regardless of their party affiliation. But first, it needs more than 389,000 signatures by July of next year. .
Recent polling from The New York Times and Siena College found President Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in five of the six most crucial battleground states, one of which is Arizona. In the Grand Canyon state Trump leads Biden by five-percentage points. Elaine Kamarck, director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institute, said the question is - if polls are showing Biden slipping, compounded with his unfavorable approval rating, does that mean voters won t vote for him and other Democrats in the upcoming election? She said it isn t a simple answer. .