AZ Political Podcast: Marlene Galán-Woods says she is Democrats’ best hope to flip CD1
Marlene Galán-Woods discusses her second attempt to win the Democratic nomination in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District on the latest AZ Political Podcast.
Watch: AZ Political Podcast: How Marlene Galan-Woods plans to flip GOP-held CD1 to Democrats | 18 mins
Will the second time be the charm for Marlene Galán-Woods? Will her second attempt to win the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District lead to her being Arizona’s second Latina in Congress? (Adelita Grijalva became the first when she won last year’s special election in CD7.)
Galán-Woods won’t get the chance if she comes in second again to Amish Shah, the Democrat who won 2024’s CD1 primary. (Shah went on to lose the general election to Republican David Schweikert.)
Shah and two other men, Rick McCartney and Johnathan Treble, will be sharing a debate stage with Galán-Woods on Tuesday night.
Galán-Woods tells me on this week’s AZ Political Podcast that with Schweikert out of the CD1 picture (he’s running for governor), Democrats’ chances of flipping the seat have greatly increased. And she argues that she represents her party’s best chance to beat whomever the Republicans nominate in the CD1 race.
On the podcast, Galán-Woods also discusses her personal journey: starting out as the daughter of poor Cuban immigrants to realizing her dream of being a broadcast journalist.
And she shares her political journey: what caused her to go from being a solid Cuban-American Republican to a Democrat worthy of receiving the endorsement of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Even though this was my first time interacting in the media with Galán-Woods, in the interests of full disclosure, I should mention I was friends with her late husband, former Republican Attorney General Grant Woods — who took a similar political journey before his death in 2021.
The AZ Political Podcast is available at KTAR.com, the KTAR News app and everywhere you get your podcasts.
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Arizona failed Kari. Not the other way around. Look at the clown show the people elected instead. TDS Veto Queen Hobbs, and TDS sue-crazy Antifa Mayes.
Powering Arizona to be sucked into the crashing California Vortex of Destruction.
And I hope the anti-American far left radical Democrats fail in every instance.
The trumped up demented puppet Biden administration cause this mess by opening the borders to every violent criminal in the world. Dozens of foreign countries flushed their prison toilets into stupid Democrat America and cleaned up their own countries. I personally observed it in Cuba.