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Ansari is running for the congressional seat held by fellow Democrat Ruben Gallego, who is running for Senate. The council will choose a replacement for Ansari in April.
Mar. 18, 2024
Election officials in Arizona have to go to great lengths each year to explain that, unlike other primaries, independents aren't invited to the Presidential Preference Election on Tuesday.
Mar. 18, 2024
Arizona is widely expected to be a swing state again this fall, meaning both campaigns will be paying a lot of attention to us here. And more and more of the conversation about this race seems to focus not on the candidate’s policies, but rather on their ages.
Mar. 18, 2024
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake filed enough signatures to qualify for the ballot Friday after asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up her case challenging the use of electronic voting machines that dates back to her run for governor in 2022.
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Mar. 15, 2024
KJZZ’s Friday NewsCap revisits some of the biggest stories of the week from Arizona and beyond. Former state schools Superintendent Jaime Molera of Molera Alvarez and Democratic strategist Tony Cani joined The Show.
Mar. 15, 2024
An attorney hired by the Republican National Committee to focus on alleged election fraud has ties to the Arizona Senate’s discredited audit of the 2020 presidential election.
Mar. 14, 2024
A recent poll from Noble Predictive Insights found 59% Arizonans believe the state is running out of water.
Mar. 14, 2024
James Clark, 40, of Falmouth, pleaded guilty in August in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to sending a communication containing a bomb threat to an election official.
Mar. 13, 2024
A year after resigning from Cochise County elections administration, citing a hostile work environment, Lisa Marra has been appointed as Arizona’s highest-ranking unelected elections official.
Mar. 13, 2024
Steve Kozachik has been on the City Council since 2009. He represents Ward 6 in midtown Tucson — where he worked on city projects including those focused on migrant care and another to reduce collect and recycle plastic waste.
Mar. 12, 2024
Republican lawmakers are moving to allow voters around the state to decide — and possibly overrule — how Tucson elects members of its City Council.
Mar. 12, 2024
Arizona activists supporting a ceasefire in Gaza are urging Democratic voters to support an alternative to President Joe Biden in next week’s presidential preference election.
Mar. 11, 2024
Kyrsten Sinema rocked the political world last week when she announced she won’t seek reelection for her seat in the U.S. Senate. In her announcement, she cited partisanship in Washington and said her bipartisan approach is “not what America wants right now.”
Mar. 11, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Alex Roarty, a reporter with nonprofit political news site NOTUS, about No Labels and third-party candidates in the upcoming presidential election.
Mar. 11, 2024
When President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address Thursday, Native Americans from Arizona were special guests on Capitol Hill. It sent a clear message about the importance of Indigenous support for Democrats facing high-stakes elections this year in battleground states.
Mar. 8, 2024
Lorna Romero Ferguson of Elevate Strategies and Gaelle Esposito of Creosote Partners joined The Show to talk about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s reelection decision, Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto of an immigration-related bill and more.
Mar. 8, 2024
Prosecutors with Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office issued grand jury subpoenas in connection with their investigation of a group of Arizona Republicans who sought to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Mar. 7, 2024
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has endorsed Ruben Gallego in Arizona’s crucial U.S. Senate race. So, too, has former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
Mar. 6, 2024
Richer sued Lake over her repeated, unproven claims that he played a role in sabotaging the 2022 election she lost to Gov. Katie Hobbs. He said false statements made by Lake and her campaign led to violent threats and security concerns for his family.
Mar. 5, 2024
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Tuesday she won’t seek a second term. Sinema has for months dodged questions about her plans to run for reelection as an independent.
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Mar. 5, 2024