This is great. Congrats to both of them in doing everything they can to avoid another 2016.
“Bernie Sanders’s Endorsement of Joe Biden Was a Public Demonstration of Their Common Goal
The issue is now firmly joined—ridding the country of this president* once and for all.
I have to admit, Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for president had a touch of the showman to it. Sanders popped in on Biden’s daily spiel and dropped, purportedly by surprise, a firm, strong endorsement of Biden on the one issue that matters above all others—shuttering Camp Runamuck and arranging that nothing like it ever rises again in this battered, listing republic.
‘So to me, for all of those reasons and so many more, a president who doesn’t apparently has never read the constitution of the United States who believes he’s above the law. A president who lies all of the time, a president who has at least shown me that he is a racist and a sexist and a homophobe and a xenophobe and a religious bigot. I mean, for all of those reasons or more, we’ve got to make Trump a one term president and we need you in the white house. So I will do all that I can to see that happens, Joe. And I know that there is an enormous responsibility on your shoulders right now and it’s imperative that all of us work together to do what has to be done not only in this moment but beyond this moment in the future of this country.’
And Biden, whose gift for being fulsome doth not wither with age, went long in his reply.
‘As I said in my statement, when you suspended your campaign, I want to thank you for being the powerful voice and you’ve been the most powerful voice for a fair and more just America. It’s a voice like yours that refuses to allow us just to accept what is. You’ve refused to accept that we can’t change what’s wrong in our nation. You refused to accept that health and wellbeing of our fellow citizens and our planet is the responsibility of somebody else… and you don’t get enough credit, Bernie, for being the voice that forces us to take a hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Have we done enough,” and we haven’t.’
There is a genuine affection between these two old career politicians, who have more in common with each other than either one of them has with the voters who powered their campaigns. (Biden is not African American and Sanders is not young.) They batted some issues around and agreed to form task forces drawn from their respective campaign staffs. But mainly what they did was to demonstrate in public how they can help each other in alliance. I’ve long felt that Biden was strictly a mainstream party man and that, if he felt that the mainstream of the party were running left, he’d go with the flow. And, in handling the endorsement with the speed and grace that he did, Sanders demonstrated that he’d learned from his biggest mistake in 2016—being late and tepid in his endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are two old white dudes who like each other. And the issue is now firmly joined—ridding the country of this president* once and for all. That’s all that matters now.”
Frightening. And he’s not done. Imagine what he will do when he loses re-election.
“A Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump
“He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons…”
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As the 2020 race heats up, Donald Trump has placed his use of his pardon powers at the center of his reelection bid. One widely discussed campaign ad, aired during the Super Bowl, featured Alice Johnson—a black woman who served 21 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018. “Thanks to President Trump, people like Alice are getting a second chance,” the ad stated. In February, Trump also freed several women who served time with Johnson.
But Johnson’s case is far from typical. More often, Trump has used his clemency powers to reward friends, political allies and donors, and Fox News regulars. Former Trump aides convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation—including Roger Stone—have reportedly sought pardons, and Trump recently said he was “strongly considering” granting one for Michael Flynn. Here’s a list of right-wing icons, corrupt public officials, accused war criminals, and other controversial figures who have already received executive clemency from Trump.
Joe Arpaio
During his 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Arpaio called himself “America’s toughest sheriff” and became known for his severe treatment of immigrants and the harsh conditions in his county jail. When a judge ordered him to stop detaining people based solely on suspicion of their immigration status, which amounted to racial profiling, he refused. In 2017, he was found guilty of criminal contempt of court for violating that order.
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The Trump connection: Arpaio endorsed Trump in January 2016, citing his stances on immigration and stumping for him in Iowa. The two men also share a fondness for racist conspiracy theories. At the same time Trump was pushing the false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Arpaio sent one of his deputies and a member of his volunteer birther posse to Hawaii to investigate Obama’s birth certificate. At an August 2017 rally in Phoenix, Trump hinted at a pardon. “Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?” he said. “I’ll make a prediction: I think he’s going to be just fine.” Days later, the president followed through. “Sheriff Joe is a patriot,” he declared. “Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders. And Sheriff Joe was very unfairly treated by the Obama administration.”
Dwight and Steven Hammond
When Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted of arson for burning more than 100 acres of federal land, their case became a flashpoint in the fight for control over public lands. (Witnesses testified the fire was intended to cover up evidence of illegal hunting; the Hammonds said they started the fire on their own property to burn off invasive species and it accidentally spread.) “They have become symbols of the way many rural Americans feel they’ve been wronged by federal overreach,” BuzzFeed News reported. Their case sparked a 41-day standoff with federal agents at a wildlife refuge in Oregon, led by Ryan and Ammon Bundy. Many people joining the protest were members of unofficial militias, armed with long guns and pistols and dressed in full tactical gear. One Arizona rancher was killed by police.
The Trump connection: The Hammonds had support both from right-wing extremists willing to take up arms against government regulation and from a multimillionaire oil magnate. Forrest Lucas—a GOP megadonor who holds naming rights to the Indianapolis Colts stadium and has close ties to Vice President Mike Pence—made the Hammonds a personal cause as a symbol of his anti-regulation agenda. Trump pardoned them in July 2018. Lucas flew the Hammonds home in his private plane after they were released…..
TRUMP PLANS TO NEGATE ELECTION OUTCOME — PERHAPS NEGATE ELECTION! — BY LETTING THE POST OFFICE RUN OUT OF MONEY NEEDED TO DELIVER MANY OR MOST MAIL–IN VOTES!
Postal Service says it’s going broke due to pandemic, Trump flatly opposes emergency aid
Paul Romer, a Nobel-winning economist and N.Y.U. professor, proposes that 7 percent of the population be tested each day. If put on a rotating schedule, that would mean everyone would be tested roughly once every two weeks.
He argues that even if there are plenty of false negatives, if we committed to isolating everyone with a positive test, we could keep the vast majority of Americans out and about in normal life. All told, that would mean 150 million tests a week.
He argues that even if there are plenty of false negatives, if we committed to isolating everyone with a positive test, we could keep the vast majority of Americans out and about in normal life. All told, that would mean 150 million tests a week. …
… “We spend something like $700 billion a year to protect us against military threats,” he said. “We are at greater risk from a biological threat at the moment than any military threat. We should be prepared to spend at least a hundred billion a year not only to protect us against this virus, but any potential new viruses that could threaten us in the future.”
Cheaper than multi-trillion dollar lock downs. If the Donald has a brain, this might be just what the Republican quacks ordered.
has anyone else noticed the plan for reopening the economy which appears as almost a done deal in what press coverage there has been.
the plan involves everyone wearing a monitor so the government can trace where you have been and who you met… all the time.
the plan seems to come from those patriots and wise men at Harvard, Nobel Prize winning economists, Bill Gates…
brilliant people like that we can all trust with our futures and our freedom.
i think there is a more sensible way to go about it: maintain social distancing as voluntary… supported by social moral suasion…, wear masks and gloves where risk is higher and distances closer… just as health care workers must right now… open business on “as needed” and “as reasonably safe” basis. extend reasonable unemployment benefits to those still out of work due to still needed shutdowns, paid for by a combination of government borrowing and taxes on those who are still making money. the last is a “socialist” solution, but no more socialist that the new deal was/is for the usual unemployment pandemics we face from time to time.
i know i don’t know enough to have an answer to the Wise Men, but I think the people are safer muddling through than they are by accepting permanent house arrest brought to them by the friendly meritocracy.
really would like to see an intelligent follow up on this. there may still be time… at least for this. can’t say the same for the Other armageddons we will still be facing.
One flaw in your theory is paying for benefits out of taxes on those still working. Trillions in debt is actually the way to go — and perfectly harmless (one time around).
Over the next 40 years (time for today’s newborns’, newborns to start paying taxes — for those worried about leaving debts for future generations) the economy will produce something like 1200 trillion dollars worth of goods and services. 20 trillion this years’, — 45 trillion forty years out; 20 trillion X 50% more people X 50% more per capita output. 32.5 trillion (average) X 40 years = 1200 trillion plus.
Meantime the 10 trillion debt we leave behind (nobody’s actually planning to leave so much) would shrink to 2-3 trillion with inflation. Way to go. 😉
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President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has quietly issued guidance informing most employers in the United States that they will not be required to record and report coronavirus cases among their workers because doing so would supposedly constitute an excessive burden on companies.
The new rules, released Friday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), were met with alarm by public health experts and former Labor Department officials who said the new rules are an absurd attack on transparency that could further endanger frontline workers.
not sure paying with taxes is a flaw, but am open to argument.
it seems to me the Left destroys it’s credibility with its aversion to paying taxes. No doubt “the rich” should pay higher taxes. But in, for example, a corona virus environment, those who have jobs are richer than those who don’t. I hate to say there is no free lunch. But it’s the shortest way I can think of to say “you need to think about this,”
But maybe not too much or too long. I’d take the “debt only” solution just to get something started that is not Big Brother To Keep Us Safe.
it is worth saying that Trump and the Powers behind him are using the Coronavirus to do all the evil things they have always meant to do as soon as they could get away with it.
Not a big fan of polls, but this is a big fen deal form my old state.
” There Have Been 13 Arizona Polls in the last 14 Months and Trump Has Led Only One of Them
A new poll released Wednesday by OH Predictive Insights had some very good news for Arizona Democrats: the party’s likely senate nominee, former astronaut Mark Kelly, leads Republican Sen. Martha McSally by nine points. And better still, Kelly is over the fifty-percent threshold for the second consecutive poll.
Or maybe it’s not exactly news. Kelly has led the last nine polls of the race, according to Real Clear Politics tracker, dating back to last August. If you want to find a survey that showed McSally in the lead, you’d have to go all the way back to last May—when this same pollster had her up by one. The Arizona race is technically a special-election to permanently fill the seat held by the interim Repbulican Sen. Jon Kyl, who was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the late Sen. John McCain. (This is confusing, but: McSally lost her 2018 Senate bid to Democratic Kyrsten Sinema in the race to succeed a different retiring Republican, Sen. Jeff Flake, but Republican Gov. Doug Ducey appointed her nonetheless to replace Kyl.) If Democrats are going to take back control of the Senate, they will need to flip at least three Republican seats (four, if you expect Alabama Sen. Doug Jones to lose; five, if they don’t win the White House). Right now, Kelly is looking like their safest bet.
But there’s another pretty big election in Arizona this fall—the presidential race, where 11 electoral votes are up for grabs. That’s one more than Wisconsin. And the news on that front is, if anything, even more encouraging for Democrats. There have been 13 head-to-head polls between Joe Biden and President Donald Trump in Arizona over the last 14 months, and Trump has led just one of them—by two points in December. In the same OH Predictive Insights survey, Biden also led his opponent by nine points, and was likewise above the 50-percent threshold.
That is, as he might say, a big effing deal. While much of the party’s energy over the last four years has focused on winning back the Midwestern “blue wall,” Arizona—which was more competitive than Ohio in 2016—right now represents a more favorable landscape than that most critical of swing states, Wisconsin. And it has one more electoral vote, to boot. Another point in Arizona’s favor: it has also taken significant steps toward a vote-by-mail system.
So much about the November election is up in the air right now. (Who has the energy to pay attention to polls in a pandemic?) But there are signs, at least, that the next blue wall might just be in the Southwest.”
A Dem victory in the Presidential election and two Dem Senators from Arizona?
Unthinkable a decade ago.
The biggest reason? Increases in voter registrations (I will take a tiny little bit of credit here as I worked on that for over a decade before leaving).
Further, and probably more important in total numbers is the immigration of may people from blue states(California, Illinois, etc.). And those people are also much younger than AZ is used to.
I really don’t want to go back to March.
This is great. Congrats to both of them in doing everything they can to avoid another 2016.
“Bernie Sanders’s Endorsement of Joe Biden Was a Public Demonstration of Their Common Goal
The issue is now firmly joined—ridding the country of this president* once and for all.
I have to admit, Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for president had a touch of the showman to it. Sanders popped in on Biden’s daily spiel and dropped, purportedly by surprise, a firm, strong endorsement of Biden on the one issue that matters above all others—shuttering Camp Runamuck and arranging that nothing like it ever rises again in this battered, listing republic.
‘So to me, for all of those reasons and so many more, a president who doesn’t apparently has never read the constitution of the United States who believes he’s above the law. A president who lies all of the time, a president who has at least shown me that he is a racist and a sexist and a homophobe and a xenophobe and a religious bigot. I mean, for all of those reasons or more, we’ve got to make Trump a one term president and we need you in the white house. So I will do all that I can to see that happens, Joe. And I know that there is an enormous responsibility on your shoulders right now and it’s imperative that all of us work together to do what has to be done not only in this moment but beyond this moment in the future of this country.’
And Biden, whose gift for being fulsome doth not wither with age, went long in his reply.
‘As I said in my statement, when you suspended your campaign, I want to thank you for being the powerful voice and you’ve been the most powerful voice for a fair and more just America. It’s a voice like yours that refuses to allow us just to accept what is. You’ve refused to accept that we can’t change what’s wrong in our nation. You refused to accept that health and wellbeing of our fellow citizens and our planet is the responsibility of somebody else… and you don’t get enough credit, Bernie, for being the voice that forces us to take a hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Have we done enough,” and we haven’t.’
There is a genuine affection between these two old career politicians, who have more in common with each other than either one of them has with the voters who powered their campaigns. (Biden is not African American and Sanders is not young.) They batted some issues around and agreed to form task forces drawn from their respective campaign staffs. But mainly what they did was to demonstrate in public how they can help each other in alliance. I’ve long felt that Biden was strictly a mainstream party man and that, if he felt that the mainstream of the party were running left, he’d go with the flow. And, in handling the endorsement with the speed and grace that he did, Sanders demonstrated that he’d learned from his biggest mistake in 2016—being late and tepid in his endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are two old white dudes who like each other. And the issue is now firmly joined—ridding the country of this president* once and for all. That’s all that matters now.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32132801/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement-2020-election-trump/
Frightening. And he’s not done. Imagine what he will do when he loses re-election.
“A Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump
“He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons…”
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As the 2020 race heats up, Donald Trump has placed his use of his pardon powers at the center of his reelection bid. One widely discussed campaign ad, aired during the Super Bowl, featured Alice Johnson—a black woman who served 21 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018. “Thanks to President Trump, people like Alice are getting a second chance,” the ad stated. In February, Trump also freed several women who served time with Johnson.
But Johnson’s case is far from typical. More often, Trump has used his clemency powers to reward friends, political allies and donors, and Fox News regulars. Former Trump aides convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation—including Roger Stone—have reportedly sought pardons, and Trump recently said he was “strongly considering” granting one for Michael Flynn. Here’s a list of right-wing icons, corrupt public officials, accused war criminals, and other controversial figures who have already received executive clemency from Trump.
Joe Arpaio
During his 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Arpaio called himself “America’s toughest sheriff” and became known for his severe treatment of immigrants and the harsh conditions in his county jail. When a judge ordered him to stop detaining people based solely on suspicion of their immigration status, which amounted to racial profiling, he refused. In 2017, he was found guilty of criminal contempt of court for violating that order.
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The Trump connection: Arpaio endorsed Trump in January 2016, citing his stances on immigration and stumping for him in Iowa. The two men also share a fondness for racist conspiracy theories. At the same time Trump was pushing the false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Arpaio sent one of his deputies and a member of his volunteer birther posse to Hawaii to investigate Obama’s birth certificate. At an August 2017 rally in Phoenix, Trump hinted at a pardon. “Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?” he said. “I’ll make a prediction: I think he’s going to be just fine.” Days later, the president followed through. “Sheriff Joe is a patriot,” he declared. “Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders. And Sheriff Joe was very unfairly treated by the Obama administration.”
Dwight and Steven Hammond
When Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted of arson for burning more than 100 acres of federal land, their case became a flashpoint in the fight for control over public lands. (Witnesses testified the fire was intended to cover up evidence of illegal hunting; the Hammonds said they started the fire on their own property to burn off invasive species and it accidentally spread.) “They have become symbols of the way many rural Americans feel they’ve been wronged by federal overreach,” BuzzFeed News reported. Their case sparked a 41-day standoff with federal agents at a wildlife refuge in Oregon, led by Ryan and Ammon Bundy. Many people joining the protest were members of unofficial militias, armed with long guns and pistols and dressed in full tactical gear. One Arizona rancher was killed by police.
The Trump connection: The Hammonds had support both from right-wing extremists willing to take up arms against government regulation and from a multimillionaire oil magnate. Forrest Lucas—a GOP megadonor who holds naming rights to the Indianapolis Colts stadium and has close ties to Vice President Mike Pence—made the Hammonds a personal cause as a symbol of his anti-regulation agenda. Trump pardoned them in July 2018. Lucas flew the Hammonds home in his private plane after they were released…..
Sixteen more.
TRUMP PLANS TO NEGATE ELECTION OUTCOME — PERHAPS NEGATE ELECTION! — BY LETTING THE POST OFFICE RUN OUT OF MONEY NEEDED TO DELIVER MANY OR MOST MAIL–IN VOTES!
Postal Service says it’s going broke due to pandemic, Trump flatly opposes emergency aid
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/postal-service-broke-due-pandemic-trump-flatly-opposes/story?id=70119153
From: Lesson From Singapore: Why We May Need to Think Bigger
By Aaron E. Carroll April 14, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/upshot/coronavirus-singapore-thinking-big.html
The Romer plan of maximum testing.
Paul Romer, a Nobel-winning economist and N.Y.U. professor, proposes that 7 percent of the population be tested each day. If put on a rotating schedule, that would mean everyone would be tested roughly once every two weeks.
He argues that even if there are plenty of false negatives, if we committed to isolating everyone with a positive test, we could keep the vast majority of Americans out and about in normal life. All told, that would mean 150 million tests a week.
He argues that even if there are plenty of false negatives, if we committed to isolating everyone with a positive test, we could keep the vast majority of Americans out and about in normal life. All told, that would mean 150 million tests a week. …
… “We spend something like $700 billion a year to protect us against military threats,” he said. “We are at greater risk from a biological threat at the moment than any military threat. We should be prepared to spend at least a hundred billion a year not only to protect us against this virus, but any potential new viruses that could threaten us in the future.”
Cheaper than multi-trillion dollar lock downs. If the Donald has a brain, this might be just what the Republican quacks ordered.
has anyone else noticed the plan for reopening the economy which appears as almost a done deal in what press coverage there has been.
the plan involves everyone wearing a monitor so the government can trace where you have been and who you met… all the time.
the plan seems to come from those patriots and wise men at Harvard, Nobel Prize winning economists, Bill Gates…
brilliant people like that we can all trust with our futures and our freedom.
i think there is a more sensible way to go about it: maintain social distancing as voluntary… supported by social moral suasion…, wear masks and gloves where risk is higher and distances closer… just as health care workers must right now… open business on “as needed” and “as reasonably safe” basis. extend reasonable unemployment benefits to those still out of work due to still needed shutdowns, paid for by a combination of government borrowing and taxes on those who are still making money. the last is a “socialist” solution, but no more socialist that the new deal was/is for the usual unemployment pandemics we face from time to time.
i know i don’t know enough to have an answer to the Wise Men, but I think the people are safer muddling through than they are by accepting permanent house arrest brought to them by the friendly meritocracy.
really would like to see an intelligent follow up on this. there may still be time… at least for this. can’t say the same for the Other armageddons we will still be facing.
Coberly,
One flaw in your theory is paying for benefits out of taxes on those still working. Trillions in debt is actually the way to go — and perfectly harmless (one time around).
Over the next 40 years (time for today’s newborns’, newborns to start paying taxes — for those worried about leaving debts for future generations) the economy will produce something like 1200 trillion dollars worth of goods and services. 20 trillion this years’, — 45 trillion forty years out; 20 trillion X 50% more people X 50% more per capita output. 32.5 trillion (average) X 40 years = 1200 trillion plus.
Meantime the 10 trillion debt we leave behind (nobody’s actually planning to leave so much) would shrink to 2-3 trillion with inflation. Way to go. 😉
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President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has quietly issued guidance informing most employers in the United States that they will not be required to record and report coronavirus cases among their workers because doing so would supposedly constitute an excessive burden on companies.
The new rules, released Friday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), were met with alarm by public health experts and former Labor Department officials who said the new rules are an absurd attack on transparency that could further endanger frontline workers.
Denis,
not sure paying with taxes is a flaw, but am open to argument.
it seems to me the Left destroys it’s credibility with its aversion to paying taxes. No doubt “the rich” should pay higher taxes. But in, for example, a corona virus environment, those who have jobs are richer than those who don’t. I hate to say there is no free lunch. But it’s the shortest way I can think of to say “you need to think about this,”
But maybe not too much or too long. I’d take the “debt only” solution just to get something started that is not Big Brother To Keep Us Safe.
Dan
it is worth saying that Trump and the Powers behind him are using the Coronavirus to do all the evil things they have always meant to do as soon as they could get away with it.
Not a whole lot different from Cheney and 911.
Not a big fan of polls, but this is a big fen deal form my old state.
” There Have Been 13 Arizona Polls in the last 14 Months and Trump Has Led Only One of Them
A new poll released Wednesday by OH Predictive Insights had some very good news for Arizona Democrats: the party’s likely senate nominee, former astronaut Mark Kelly, leads Republican Sen. Martha McSally by nine points. And better still, Kelly is over the fifty-percent threshold for the second consecutive poll.
Or maybe it’s not exactly news. Kelly has led the last nine polls of the race, according to Real Clear Politics tracker, dating back to last August. If you want to find a survey that showed McSally in the lead, you’d have to go all the way back to last May—when this same pollster had her up by one. The Arizona race is technically a special-election to permanently fill the seat held by the interim Repbulican Sen. Jon Kyl, who was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the late Sen. John McCain. (This is confusing, but: McSally lost her 2018 Senate bid to Democratic Kyrsten Sinema in the race to succeed a different retiring Republican, Sen. Jeff Flake, but Republican Gov. Doug Ducey appointed her nonetheless to replace Kyl.) If Democrats are going to take back control of the Senate, they will need to flip at least three Republican seats (four, if you expect Alabama Sen. Doug Jones to lose; five, if they don’t win the White House). Right now, Kelly is looking like their safest bet.
But there’s another pretty big election in Arizona this fall—the presidential race, where 11 electoral votes are up for grabs. That’s one more than Wisconsin. And the news on that front is, if anything, even more encouraging for Democrats. There have been 13 head-to-head polls between Joe Biden and President Donald Trump in Arizona over the last 14 months, and Trump has led just one of them—by two points in December. In the same OH Predictive Insights survey, Biden also led his opponent by nine points, and was likewise above the 50-percent threshold.
That is, as he might say, a big effing deal. While much of the party’s energy over the last four years has focused on winning back the Midwestern “blue wall,” Arizona—which was more competitive than Ohio in 2016—right now represents a more favorable landscape than that most critical of swing states, Wisconsin. And it has one more electoral vote, to boot. Another point in Arizona’s favor: it has also taken significant steps toward a vote-by-mail system.
So much about the November election is up in the air right now. (Who has the energy to pay attention to polls in a pandemic?) But there are signs, at least, that the next blue wall might just be in the Southwest.”
A Dem victory in the Presidential election and two Dem Senators from Arizona?
Unthinkable a decade ago.
The biggest reason? Increases in voter registrations (I will take a tiny little bit of credit here as I worked on that for over a decade before leaving).
Further, and probably more important in total numbers is the immigration of may people from blue states(California, Illinois, etc.). And those people are also much younger than AZ is used to.