Nancy Pelosi campaigns in Phoenix ahead of August primary elections
Aug 7, 2018, 6:15 PM | Updated: 8:54 pm
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PHOENIX — The leader of the Democratic Party for the U.S. House of Representatives made a stop in Phoenix on Tuesday, just three weeks ahead of the critical primary elections later this month.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed Democratic Party leaders and activists at a Phoenix workspace, saying this is a critical time for Democrats.
“We must own August with our theme, ‘For the people,’ lower costs for health care, bigger paychecks, cleaner government,” Pelosi said.
“We must own August.”
Maricopa County Dems are fired up and ready to #TakeItBack!
Remember: every call you make, every door you knock, and every person you register to vote matters. We will win because of the people’s hard work. —NP pic.twitter.com/Ke7Y6N22hB
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) August 7, 2018
Pelosi said she believes that hard work done at the hands of Democrats over the next few weeks could flip the House from Republican to Democratic control.
“The election, the victory, belongs to those who own the ground,” she added.
While she was addressing supporters, a small group of pro-Trump supporters were outside the venue attempting to drown out the House speaker.
Jonathan Lines, the chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, said the move by Pelosi was simply an attempt to “influence our elections and turn Arizona into California.
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“We are 100 percent opposed to that,” Lines said. “Liberal elites are pushing to create another California in our Arizona and we’re simply not going to stand for that.
“We’re doubling down and we’re going to keep this state red.”
But recent polls have showed that the Democratic Party might have a leg up in one of the state’s biggest races: The election to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jeff Flake.
An August poll from OH Predictive Insights/ABC15 showed that Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic primary winner, was leading Rep. Martha McSally, the likely Republican primary winner, in a head-to-head match up.
In the potential general election match-up, Sinema, of Phoenix, was ahead of McSally, 48 percent to 44 percent.
KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Mark Carlson contributed to this report.
