Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
By any fair measure, Arizona was a Republican stronghold for decades. In the half-century between 2018 and 1968, Arizonans only elected one Democratic U.S. senator, and between 1976 and 2016, there were 11 presidential elections, with the GOP ticket carrying the Grand Canyon State in 10 of them. Those days have clearly passed. Both of Arizona’s U.S.
For another, if this explanation were true, we’d expect to see Democratic and GOP state parties everywhere with very little left in the bank. But that’s not the case at all. As The Messenger’s report added, the Arizona’s GOP’s financial status “pales in comparison to state parties in places like Wisconsin and Ohio, where both had more than $1 million in cash on hand at the end of the most recent quarter.” If it makes Arizona Republicans feel any better, it’s not completely alone.
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