by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Mark Kelly has more money in his Senate election war chest than Joe Biden does running for president. The former astronaut, gun control activist and husband of Gabrielle Giffords has established a veritable cash gusher in Arizona, raising nearly $14 million this year,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 18, 2019 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Republicans
While Donald Trump wants to build the wall, a top supporter of his in Arizona wants to annex Mexico. Ahead of a general election where the Grand Canyon State could be purple enough to be a problem for Trump, the wealthy owner of a cosmetics company, Daniel McCarthy,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 9, 2019 | 2020, Headlines
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) disavowed a fundraising pitch in which the Arizona Republican Party chair called on supporters to stop Democratic candidate Mark Kelly, whose wife, then-Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), was seriously wounded by a gunman in 2011, “dead in his...
by Jim Heath | Mar 25, 2019 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Rep. Ruben Gallego handed a huge gift to Arizona’s Mark Kelly today, announcing he is not seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. senate next year. Gallego is well-connected to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, and many activists hoped the Phoenix...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is appointing Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, despite her loss to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema for Arizona’s other senate seat last month. Regular readers of JimHeath.TV read about this likely scenario first, when we predicted it...