United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020

Elections in Arizona, 2020

* Election date: Nov. 3
* Registration deadline(s): Oct. 15
* Online registration: Yes
* Same-day registration: No
* Recount laws

* Early voting starts: Oct. 7
* Absentee/mail voting deadline(s): Nov. 3 (received)
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* Poll times: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Mark Kelly (D) defeated incumbent Sen. Martha McSally (R) and seventeen write-in candidates in the November 3, 2020, special election for United States Senate in Arizona. Kelly filled the rest of the 2017-2022 term former Sen. John McCain (R) won in 2016.

In the 2018 general election, McSally ran for Arizona’s other Senate seat, losing to Kyrsten Sinema (D) 47.6% to 50.0%. After the election, interim Sen. Jon Kyl (R) announced his resignation and Gov. Doug Ducey (R) announced McSally as Kyl's replacement in December 2018.[1] Mitt Romney (R) won Arizona in the 2012 presidential election, 54% to 45%. Donald Trump (R) won the state, 48% to 45%, in 2016.

According to quartlerly campaign finance reports released on Oct. 14, this was the third-most-expensive U.S. Senate race in the country with Kelly raising $90,000,000, followed by McSally with $57,000,000.[2] Both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee targeted this race.[3][4]

Write-in candidates included Democrats Mohammad Arif, Adam Chilton, Perry Kapadia, and Buzz Stewart and Republicans Edward Davida, John Schiess, Debbie Simmons, and Patrick Thomas. Third-party write in candidates included Nicholas Glenn (Independent Republican), Matthew Dorchester (Libertarian), and Joshua Rodriguez (Unity). Independent or unaffiliated write-in candidates included Christopher Beckett (I), William Decker (I), Mathew Haupt (I), Frank Saenz (I), Benjamin Rodriguez (I), and Jim Stevens (None).

The outcome of this race affected partisan control of the U.S. Senate. Thirty-five of 100 seats were up for election, including two special elections. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 53-45 majority over Democrats in the Senate. Independents who caucus with the Democrats held the two remaining seats. Republicans faced greater partisan risk in the election. They defended 23 seats while Democrats defended 12. Both parties had two incumbents representing states the opposite party's presidential nominee won in 2016.

There were 10 special elections called during the 116th Congress. Eight were called for seats in the U.S. House, and two for seats in the U.S. Senate. From the 113th Congress to the 115th Congress, 40 special elections were held. For more data on historical congressional special elections, click here.

This race was one of 89 congressional races that were decided by 10 percent or less in 2020.

This page focuses on Arizona's United States Senate special general election. For more in-depth information on the state's partisan primaries, see the following pages:
United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)
United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)

This election was a battleground race. Other 2020 battlegrounds included:

* Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2020
* Georgia's 5th Congressional District special election, 2020
* Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 10 Republican primary)

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## Contents

* 1 Election procedure changes in 2020
* 2 Candidates and election results
* 3 Candidate profiles
* 4 Polls
* 5 Ballotpedia Power Index
* 6 Campaign finance
* 7 Race ratings
* 8 Noteworthy endorsements
* 9 Timeline
* 9.1 2020
* 9.1.1 November
* 9.1.2 October
* 9.1.3 September
* 10 Campaign ads
* 10.1 Martha McSally
* 10.2 Mark Kelly
* 10.3 Satellite group ads
* 10.3.1 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
* 10.3.2 MoveOn.org
* 10.3.3 Senate Leadership Fund
* 10.3.4 Senate Majority PAC
* 11 Debates and forums
* 11.1 October 22 candidate forum
* 11.2 October 6 debate
* 12 Campaign themes
* 12.1 Martha McSally
* 12.2 Mark Kelly
* 12.3 Mohammad Arif (write-in)
* 12.4 Matthew Dorchester (write-in)
* 12.5 Nicholas Glenn (Independent Republican write-in)
* 12.6 Perry Kapadia (write-in)
* 12.7 John Schiess (write-in)
* 13 Ballot access requirements
* 14 Election history
* 14.1 2018
* 14.2 2016
* 14.3 2012
* 15 Special elections to the 116th Congress
* 15.1 Results
* 15.1.1 House
* 15.1.2 Senate
* 15.2 Historical data
* 15.2.1 Special elections, 2013-2020
* 15.2.2 Special elections, 1986-2012
* 16 State profile
* 16.1 Partisan data
* 17 See also
* 18 Footnotes

## Election procedure changes in 2020[edit]

See also: Changes to election dates, procedures, and administration in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

Ballotpedia provided comprehensive coverage of how election dates and procedures changed in 2020. While the majority of changes occurred as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some changes occurred for other reasons.

Arizona modified its voter registration procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election as follows:

* Voter registration: Voters had until 5:00 p.m. on October 15, 2020, to register to vote.

For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.

## Candidates and election results[edit]

General election

##### Special general election for U.S. Senate Arizona

The following candidates ran in the special general election for U.S. Senate Arizona on November 3, 2020.

Candidate

Votes

|
|
|

✔ |

| Mark Kelly (D)  |

51.2

| 1,716,467

| Martha McSally (R)  |

48.8

| 1,637,661

| Matthew Dorchester (L) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 379

| Nicholas Glenn (Independent Republican Party) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 152

| Debbie Simmons (R) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 98

| John Schiess (R) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 92

| Christopher Beckett (Independent) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 69

| Joshua Rodriguez (Unity Party) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 69

| Mohammad Arif (D) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 68

| Perry Kapadia (D) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 58

| Mathew Haupt (Independent) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 37

| Patrick Thomas (R) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 29

| Edward Davida (R) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 28

| Jim Stevens (None) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 23

| Buzz Stewart (D) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 22

| William Decker (Independent) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 21

| Adam Chilton (D) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 19

| Benjamin Rodriguez (Independent) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 17

| Frank Saenz (Independent) (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 8

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Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

| Total votes: 3,355,317

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Democratic primary election

##### Special Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Arizona

Mark Kelly defeated Bo Garcia in the special Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Arizona on August 4, 2020.

Candidate

Votes

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|
|

✔ |

| Mark Kelly |

99.9

| 665,620

| Bo Garcia (Write-in)  |

0.1

| 451

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There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

| Total votes: 666,071

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Republican primary election

##### Special Republican primary for U.S. Senate Arizona

Incumbent Martha McSally defeated Daniel McCarthy and Sean Lyons in the special Republican primary for U.S. Senate Arizona on August 4, 2020.

Candidate

Votes

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✔ |

| Martha McSally |

75.2

| 551,119

| Daniel McCarthy |

24.8

| 181,511

| Sean Lyons (Write-in)  |

0.0

| 210

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Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

| Total votes: 732,840

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Libertarian primary election

##### Special Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Arizona

No candidate advanced from the primary.

Candidate

Votes

|
|
|

| Barry J. Hess (Write-in)  |

76.5

| 329

| Alan White (Write-in)  |

23.5

| 101

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Vote totals may be incomplete for this race.

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| Total votes: 430

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#### Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

* Mark Cavener (R)
* Floyd Getchell (R)
* Juan Angel Vasquez (D)
* PT Burton (R)
* Josue Larose (R)
* Sheila Bilyeu (D)
* Mohammad Arif (D)
* Craig Brittain (R)

## Candidate profiles[edit]

This section includes candidate profiles created in one of two ways. Either the candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey or Ballotpedia staff created a profile after identifying the candidate as noteworthy.[5] Ballotpedia staff compiled profiles based on campaign websites, advertisements, and public statements.

Martha McSally

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: Yes

Political Office:

* U.S. Senate (Assumed office: 2019)
* U.S. House (2015-2019)

Biography: McSally graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and served in the Air Force for 26 years before retiring in 2010 as a colonel. She was the first woman fighter pilot to fly in combat. She earned a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Air War College. McSally was a professor of national security studies at the George C. Marshall Center in Germany.

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Key Messages

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McSally said she would work to protect people with pre-existing conditions, make prescription drugs safe and affordable, and lower healthcare costs.

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McSally said she worked to secure business loans in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and would create incentives to move jobs and prescription drug manufacturing from China to the United States.

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McSally said Mark Kelly (D) was too liberal and would support increased government influence over healthcare, misuse government funds, and support the agendas of Joe Biden (D) and Democrats.

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Sources: YouTube, "Martha McSally," accessed July 15, 2020; YouTube, "American Workers," June 5, 2020; YouTube, "Bonnie," September 16, 2020; YouTube, "Stronger than Ever," April 29, 2020; YouTube, "Fight Back," August 27, 2020; Martha McSally's 2020 campaign website, "About," accessed July 15, 2020; Vote Smart, "Martha McSally's Biography," accessed July 15, 2020

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. Senate Arizona in 2020

Mark Kelly

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Biography: Kelly attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He is a veteran of the Navy. Kelly was a NASA astronaut, a businessman, and a cofounder of GIFFORDS, which is, according to its website, “an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.”

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Key Messages

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Kelly said his experience in the Navy and as an astronaut informed his desire to prioritize solving problems in a time of crisis over partisan politics.

* * *

Kelly said he would work to ensure people with preexisting conditions had access to healthcare, create a public insurance option, and lower prescription drug costs.

* * *

Kelly said he would strengthen the economy and create jobs by opposing tax breaks for the super wealthy and large corporations and investing in infrastructure and research and development.

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Sources: YouTube, "Mark Kelly Calls China an Adversary," July 20, 2020; Mark Kelly's 2020 campaign website, "Healthcare," accessed September 22, 2020; Mark Kelly's 2020 campaign website, "Economy and Jobs," accessed September 22, 2020; GIFFORDS, "About," accessed September 22, 2020; Mark Kelly's 2020 campaign website, "Biography," accessed September 22, 2020

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. Senate Arizona in 2020

## Polls[edit]

See also: Ballotpedia's approach to covering polls
Special U.S. Senate in Arizona, 2020: General election polls

Poll  |  Date  |  McSally  |  Kelly  |  Other  |  Margin of error  |  Sample size  |  Sponsor
Data Orbital[6] |  Oct. 28-30  |  46%  | 47%  |  7%  |  ± 4.2  |  550  |  None
Data for Progress[7] |  Oct. 27 - Nov. 1  |  46%  | 54%  |  0%  |  ± 2.8  |  1,195  |  None
Emerson College[8] |  Oct. 29-31  |  46%  | 49%  |  5%  |  ± 3.6  |  732  |  None
Siena College[9] |  Oct. 26-30  |  43%  | 50%  |  6%  |  ± 3.0  |  1,252  |  The New York Times
SSRS[10] |  Oct. 23-30  |  45%  | 52%  |  3%  |  ± 4.1  |  865  |  CNN
Click [show] to see older poll results

Poll  |  Date  |  McSally  |  Kelly  |  Other  |  Margin of error  |  Sample size  |  Sponsor
Rassmussen Reports[11] |  Oct. 27-29  |  43%  | 48%  |  9%  |  ± 3.5  |  800  |  None
Gravis Marketing[12] |  Oct. 26-28  |  45%  | 50%  |  6%  |  ± 3.7  |  704  |  None
Ipsos[13] |  Oct. 21-27  |  44%  | 51%  |  5%  |  ± 4.2  |  714  |  Reuters
Patinkin Research Strategies[14] |  Oct. 21-24  |  46%  | 53%  |  2%  |  ± 3.6  |  729  |  Arizona Research Consortium
OH Predictive Insights[15] |  Oct. 22-25  |  45%  | 50%  |  4%  |  ± 3.2  |  716  |  None
Susquehanna Polling & Research[16] |  Oct. 19-22  |  50%  |  47%  |  3%  |  ± 4.3  |  500  |  Center for American Greatness
Basswood Research[17] |  Oct. 3-5  | 49%  |  47%  |  4%  |  ± 3.5  |  800  |  American Action Forum
Ipsos[18] |  Oct. 14-21  |  43%  | 51%  |  5%  |  ± 4.4  |  658  |  Reuters
RMG Research[19] |  Oct. 14-19  |  39%  | 46%  |  15%  |  ± 3.5  |  800  |  PoliticalIQ
Rasmussen Reports/Public Opinion Research[20] |  Oct. 18-19  |  44%  | 46%  |  10%  |  ± 3.5  |  800  |  None
Data Orbital[21] |  Oct. 16-18  |  42%  | 48%  |  10%  |  ± 4.2  |  550  |  None
YouGov[22] |  Oct. 13-16  |  41%  | 52%  |  7%  |  ± 4.1  |  1,087  |  CBS News
Monmouth University[23] |  Oct. 9-13  |  42%  | 52%  |  5%  |  ± 4.4  |  502  |  None
OH Predictive Insights[24] |  Oct. 4-8  |  45%  | 50%  |  5%  |  ± 4.0  |  608  |  None
IpsosCite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; invalid names, e.g. too many |  Oct. 7-14  |  41%  | 52%  |  8%  |  ± 4.3  |  667  |  Reuters
The Trafalgar Group[25] |  Oct. 6-9  |  45%  | 47%  |  7%  |  ± 3.0  |  1,045  |  N/A
Ipsos[26] |  Sept. 29 - Oct. 7  |  41%  | 51%  |  8%  |  ± 4.3  |  663  |  Reuters
Data Orbital[27] |  Oct. 3-5  |  44%  |  49%  |  5%  |  ± 4.2  |  550  |  N/A
High Ground Inc.[28] |  Sept. 28 - Oct. 5  |  44%  |  50%  |  6%  |  ± 4.9[29] |  400  |  N/A
Suffolk University |  Sept. 26-30, 2020  |  40%  |  49%  |  11%  |  ± 4.4  |  500  |  N/A
Siena College |  Oct. 1-3, 2020  |  39%  |  50%  |  11%  |  ± 4.2  |  655  |  The New York Times
Data For Progress[30] |  Sept. 23-28, 2020  |  42%  |  51%  |  7%  |  ± 3.4  |  808  |  Crooked Media/Indivisible
Susquehanna Polling and Research[31] |  Sept. 25-28, 2020  |  45%  |  48%  |  7%  |  ± 4.3  |  500  |  Center for American Greatness
Ipsos  |  Sept. 11-17, 2020  |  41%  |  50%  |  8%  |  ± 4.7  |  565  |  Reuters
Washington Post-ABC News |  Sept. 15-20, 2020  |  48%  |  49%  |  3%  |  ± 4.5  |  579  |  N/A
Fabrizio, Lee & Associates |  Sept. 14-16, 2020  |  46%  |  48%  |  6%  |  ± 3.5  |  800  |  McSally campaign
The New York Times/Siena College Research Institute |  Sept. 12-16, 2020  |  42%  |  50%  |  8%  |  ± 4.1  |  653  |  N/A
Redfield & Wilton Strategies[32] |  Sept. 12-16, 2020  |  35%  |  52%  |  13%  |  ± 3.4  |  855  |  N/A
Monmouth University |  Sept. 11-15, 2020  |  44%  |  50%  |  6%  |  ± 4.8  |  420  |  N/A
YouGov/CBS News |  Sept. 9-11, 2020  |  42%  |  49%  |  9%  |  ± 3.9  |  1,112  |  N/A
OH Predictive Insights[33] |  Sept. 8-10, 2020  |  42%  |  52%  |  6%  |  ± 4.0  |  600  |  N/A
Gravis Marketing[34] |  Sept. 10-11, 2020  |  43%  |  48%  |  5%  |  ± 3.8  |  684  |  N/A
Benenson Strategy Group/GS Strategy Group[35] |  Aug. 30-Sept. 8, 2020  |  45%  |  48%  |  13%  |  ± 2.5  |  1600  |  AARP
Redfield & Wilton Strategies[36] |  Aug. 30 - Sept. 4, 2020  |  38%  |  53%  |  9%  |  ± 3.4  |  830  |  N/A
Fox News |  Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2020  |  39%  |  56%  |  5%  |  ± 3.5  |  772  |  N/A
OnMessage Inc. |  Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2020  |  48%  | 48%  |  4%  |  ± 4.9  |  400  |  Heritage Action
OH Predictive Insights |  Aug. 3-4, 2020  |  43%  |  48%  |  9%  |  ± 4.0  |  603  |  N/A
SSRS |  July 18-24, 2020  |  43%  |  50%  |  4%  |  ± 3.8  |  873  |  CNN
Marist College |  July 14-22, 2020  |  41%  |  53%  |  6%  |  ± 4.1  |  826  |  NBC News
Spry Strategies |  July 11-16, 2020  |  41%  |  48%  |  11%  |  ± 3.7  |  700  |  American Principles Project
OH Predictive Insights |  July 6-7, 2020  |  43%  |  52%  |  6%  |  ± 4.0  |  600  |  N/A
YouGov |  July 7-10, 2020  |  42%  |  46%  |  12%  |  ± 3.8  |  1,099  |  CBS News
Data Orbital |  June 27-29, 2020  |  41%  |  48%  |  11%  |  ± 4.0  |  600  |  N/A
Gravis Marketing |  June 27, 2020  |  46%  |  42%  |  12%  |  ± 4.3  |  527  |  One America News Network
Redfield & Wilton Strategies |  June 14-17, 2020  |  34%  |  49%  |  17%  |  ± 3.3  |  865  |  N/A
The New York Times/Siena College |  June 8-16, 2020  |  38%  |  47%  |  16%  |  ± 4.3  |  650  |  N/A
Civiqs |  June 13-15, 2020  |  42%  |  51%  |  7%  |  ± 4.3  |  1,368  |  Daily Kos
Fox News |  May 30-June 2, 2020  |  37%  |  50%  |  13%  |  ± 3.0  |  1,002  |  N/A
Fox News |  May 30-June 2, 2020  |  37%  |  50%  |  13%  |  ± 3.0  |  1,002  |  N/A
OH Predictive Insights |  April 7-8, 2020  |  42%  |  51%  |  8%  |  ± 4.0  |  600  |  N/A
NBC News/Marist |  March 10-15, 2020  |  45%  |  48%  |  7%  |  ± 2.7  |  2,523  |  N/A
Monmouth University |  March 11-14, 2020  |  44%  |  50%  |  6%  |  ± 3.4  |  847  |  N/A
Univision/Arizona State University |  March 6-11, 2020  |  44%  |  50%  |  6%  |  ± 3.0  |  1,036  |  N/A
OH Predictive Insights |  March 3-4, 2020  |  42%  |  49%  |  9%  |  ± 4.0  |  600  |  N/A
OH Predictive Insights |  Dec. 3-4, 2019  |  44%  |  47%  |  9%  |  ± 3.9  |  628  |  N/A

## Ballotpedia Power Index[edit]

See also: The Ballotpedia Power Index

The Ballotpedia Power Index (BPI) is an election forecasting tool which factors in polling averages from RealClearPolitics and share prices on PredictIt to project the overall chances of each candidate winning election. It is updated every weekday. The following chart displays the BPI for this race dating back to August 20, 2020.

## Campaign finance[edit]

The chart below contains data from financial reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date

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Martha McSally | Republican Party | $73,553,299 | $74,361,789 | $115,304 |  As of December 31, 2020
Mohammad Arif | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," .

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

## Race ratings[edit]

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from three outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Sabato's Crystal Ball. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

* Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
* Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
* Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[37]
* Tossup ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[38][39][40]

Race ratings: U.S. Senate election in Arizona, 2020

Race tracker| Race ratings
| November 3, 2020| October 27, 2020| October 20, 2020| October 13, 2020
The Cook Political Report| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales| Tilt Democratic| Tilt Democratic| Tilt Democratic| Tilt Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic| Lean Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia updates external race ratings every week throughout the election season.

## Noteworthy endorsements[edit]

This section lists noteworthy endorsements issued in this election, including those made by high-profile individuals and organizations, cross-party endorsements, and endorsements made by newspaper editorial boards. It also includes links to endorsement lists published on campaign websites, if available. Please note that this list is not exhaustive. If you are aware of endorsements that should be included, please email us.

Noteworthy endorsements

Endorsement  |  McSally (R)  |  Kelly (D)
Newspapers and editorials
Arizona Daily Star[41] |  | ✔
Today's News-Herald[42] | ✔ |
Elected officials
President Donald Trump (R)[43] |  ✔  |
Vice President Mike Pence (R)[44] |  ✔  |
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)[45] |  |  ✔
Gov. Doug Ducey (R-Ariz.)[46] |  ✔  |
Individuals
Frmr. President Barack Obama (D)[47] |  | ✔
Frmr. U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)[48] |  ✔  |

## Timeline[edit]

### 2020[edit]

* November 2020 (click to collapse)

#### November[edit]

* Nov. 2, 2020: Data Orbital released a poll of 550 likely voters finding 47% of respondents supporting Kelly, 46% for McSally, and 7% recording another answer. There was a margin of error of ± 4.2 percentage points.[6]
* Nov. 1, 2020:
* Emerson College released a poll of 732 likely voters finding 49% of respondents supporting Kelly, 46% for McSally, and 5% recording another answer. There was a margin of error of ± 3.6 percentage points.[8]
* Siena College released a poll of 1,252 likely voters finding 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 43% for McSally, and 6% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by The New York Times and had a margin of error of ± 3.0 percentage points.[9]

* October 2020 (click to expand)

#### October[edit]

* Oct. 31, 2020: SSRS released a poll of 865 likely voters finding 52% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% for McSally, and 3% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by CNN and had a margin of error of ± 4.1 percentage points.[10]
* Oct. 30, 2020: Vice President Mike Pence (R) endorsed McSally.[44]
* Oct. 29, 2020: Rasmussen Reports released a poll of 800 likely voters finding 48% of respondents supporting Kelly, 43% for McSally, and 9% recording another answer. There was a margin of error of ± 3.5 percentage points.[11]
* Oct. 28, 2020:
* Gravis Marketing released a poll of 704 likely voters finding 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% for McSally, and 6% recording another answer. There was a margin of error of ± 3.7 percentage points.[12]
* Ipsos released a poll of 714 likely voters finding 51% of respondents supporting Kelly, 44% for McSally, and 5% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by Reuters and had a margin of error of ± 4.2 percentage points.[13]
* Oct. 27, 2020: OH Predictive Insights released a poll of 716 likely voters finding 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% for McSally, and 4% recording another answer. There was a margin of error of ± 3.2 percentage points.[15]
* 'Oct. 26, 2020: Patinkin Research Strategies released a poll of 729 likely voters finding 53% of respondents supporting Kelly, 46% for McSally, and 2% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by the Arizona Research Consortium and had a margin of error of ± 3.6 percentage points.[14]
* Oct. 25, 2020: Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) endorsed McSally.[48]
* Oct. 23, 2020: Susquehanna Polling & Research released a poll of 500 likely voters finding 50% of respondents supporting McSally, 47% for Kelly, and 3% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by the Center for American Greatness and had a ± 4.3 margin of error.[49]
* Oct. 22, 2020:
* McSally and Kelly participated in a candidate forum hosted by Univision Arizona.[50]
* Basswood Research released a poll of 800 likely voters finding 49% of respondents supporting McSally, 47% for Kelly, and 4% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by the American Action Forum and had a ± 3.5 margin of error.[17]
* Oct. 21, 2020:
* Ipsos released a poll of 658 likely voters finding 51% of respondents supporting Kelly, 43% supporting McSally, and 5% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by Reuters and had a ± 4.4 margin of error.[18]
* Rasmussen Reports and Public Opinion Research released a poll of 800 likely voters finding 46% of respondents supporting Kelly, 44% supporting McSally, and 10% recording another answer. There was a ± 3.5 margin of error.[20]
* RMG Strategies released a poll of 800 likely voters finding 46% of respondents supporting Kelly, 39% supporting McSally, and 15% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by PoliticalIQ and had a ± 3.5 margin of error.[20]
* Oct. 20, 2020: Data Orbital released poll of 550 likely voters finding 48% of respondents supporting Kelly, 42% supporting McSally, and 10% recording another answer. There was a ± 4.2 margin of error.[21]
* Oct. 18, 2020: YouGov released a poll of 1,087 registered voters finding 52% of respondents supporting Kelly, 41% supporting McSally, and 7% recording another answer. The poll was sponsored by CBS News and had a ± 4.1 margin of error.[22]
* Oct. 15, 2020: Monmouth University released a poll of 502 registered voters finding 52% of respondents supporting Kelly, 42% supporting McSally, and 5% recording another answer. There was a ± 4.4 margin of error.[23]
* Oct. 14, 2020:
* Ipsos released a poll sponsored by Reuters of 667 likely voters finding 52% of respondents supporting Kelly, 41% supporting McSally, and 8% recording another answer. There was a ± 4.3 margin of error.[51]
* OH Predictive Insights released a poll of 608 likely voters finding 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% supporting McSally, and 5% recording another answer. There was a ± 4.0 margin of error.[24]
* Oct. 12, 2020: Today's News-Herald endorsed McSally.[42]
* Oct. 11, 2020: The Trafalgar Group released a poll of 1,045 likely voters finding 47% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% supporting McSally, and 7% recording another answer and a ± 3.0 margin of error.[25]
* Oct. 7, 2020:
* Three polls were released:
* Ipsos, on behalf of Reuters, found 51% of respondents supporting Kelly, 41% supporting McSally, and 8% with another response. The poll had a sample of 663 likely voters and a ± 4.3 margin of error.[26]
* Data Orbital found 49% of respondents supporting Kelly, 44% supporting McSally, and 5% with another response. The poll had a sample of 550 likely voters and a ± 4.2 margin of error.[27]
* High Ground Inc. found 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 44% supporting McSally, and 6% with another response. The poll had a sample of 400 likely voters and a ± 4.9 margin of error.[28][29]
* The Arizona Daily Star endorsed Kelly.[41]
* Oct. 6, 2020: McSally and Kelly participated in a debate hosted by Arizona PBS, the Arizona Republic, KJZZ, and Arizona Public Media.[52]
* Oct. 3, 2020: A poll of 655 likely voters conducted by Siena College for The New York Times found 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 39% supporting McSally, and 11% recording another response with a ± 4.2 margin of error.[53]
* Oct. 2, 2020: A poll of 500 likely voters conducted by Suffolk University found 49% of respondents supporting Kelly, 40% supporting McSally, and 11% recording another response with a ± 4.4 margin of error.[54]
* Oct. 1, 2020: A poll of 808 likely voters conducted by Data For Progress found 51% of respondents supporting Kelly, 42% supporting McSally, and 7% recording another response with a ± 3.4 margin of error.[30]

* September 2020 (click to expand)

#### September[edit]

* Sept. 29, 2020: A poll of 500 likely voters conducted by Susquehanna Polling and Research on behalf of the Center for American Greatness found 48% of respondents supporting Kelly, 45% supporting McSally, and 7% recording another response with a ± 4.3 margin of error.[31]
* Sept. 25, 2020: Kelly was endorsed by former President Barack Obama (D).[55]
* Sept. 23, 2020:
* A poll of 579 likely voters conducted by Change Research/CNBC found 51% of respondents supporting Kelly and 43% McSally with a ±1.8 margin of error.[56]
* A poll of 579 likely voters conducted by Washington Post-ABC News found 48% of respondents supporting Kelly and 49% McSally with a ±4.5 margin of error.[57]
* A poll of 565 likely voters conducted by Reuters/Ipsos found 50% of respondents supporting Kelly, 41% McSally, and 8% other with a ± 4.7 margin of error.[58]
* Sept. 18, 2020:
* A poll of 855 likely voters conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found 52% of respondents supporting Kelly and 35% McSally with a ±3.4 margin of error.[32]
* A poll of 1,112 likely voters conducted by The New York Times/Siena College Research Institute found Kelly at 50% and McSally at 42% with a ± 4.1 margin of error.[59]
* Sept. 17, 2020: A poll of 420 registered voters conducted by Monmouth University found 50% of respondents supporting Kelly and 44% McSally with a ± 4.8 margin of error.[60]
* Sept. 13, 2020: A poll of 1,112 likely voters conducted by YouGov/CBS News found Kelly at 49% and McSally at 42 with a ± 3.9 margin of error.[61]
* Sept. 7, 2020: A poll of 830 likely voters conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found 53% of respondents supporting Kelly and 38% McSally with a ±3.4 margin of error.[36]

## Campaign ads[edit]

This section shows advertisements released in this race. Ads released by campaigns and, if applicable, satellite groups are embedded or linked below. If you are aware of advertisements that should be included, please email us.

###  Martha McSally[edit]

Supporting McSally

"A Better Tomorrow" - McSally campaign ad, released Oct. 24, 2020

"Scare Tactics" - McSally campaign ad, released Oct. 6, 2020

"Your Fighter" - McSally campaign ad, released Sept. 21, 2020

"Forged in Fire" - McSally campaign ad, released Sept. 10, 2020

"Arla" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 28, 2020

"Fight Back" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 27, 2020

"Ranchers" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 24, 2020

"Dianna" - McSally campaign ad, released June 29, 2020

"Shameful" - McSally campaign ad, released June 22, 2020

"Never Trust" - McSally campaign ad, released May 15, 2020

"Kristen" - McSally campaign ad, released May 1, 2020

"Stronger than Ever" - McSally campaign ad, released April 29, 2020

"Get Through This" - McSally campaign ad, released April 29, 2020

Opposing Kelly

"Arizona's Choice" - McSally campaign ad, released Oct. 24, 2020

"Too Liberal" - McSally campaign ad, released Oct. 14, 2020

"Spalding" - McSally campaign ad, released Oct. 8, 2020

"Never Meet Your 'Heroes'" - McSally campaign ad, released Sept. 7, 2020

"Bonnie" - McSally campaign ad, released Sept. 16, 2020

"Two Thousand" - McSally campaign ad, released Sept. 3, 2020

"Lemon" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 28, 2020

"Slick Salesman" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 28, 2020

"Surprise" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 14, 2020

"Carol" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 14, 2020

"Missing Mark" - McSally campaign ad, released Aug. 5, 2020

"Cheap Shots" - McSally campaign ad, released July 31, 2020

"Ripped Off" - McSally campaign ad, released July 31, 2020

"Do Anything" - McSally campaign ad, released July 31, 2020

"Salesman" - McSally campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Whitney" - McSally campaign ad, released July 10, 2020

"American Workers" - McSally campaign ad, released June 5, 2020

"Bernie Bro" - McSally campaign ad, released Feb. 18, 2020

"True Colors" - McSally campaign ad, released Feb. 12, 2020

###  Mark Kelly[edit]

Supporting Kelly

"All the Answers" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 24, 2020

"Mi Amigo" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 23, 2020

"Buena educación" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 21, 2020

"Path" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 20, 2020

"Right Reasons" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 20, 2020

"Level up, Arizona" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 16, 2020

"Commitment" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 13, 2020

"Countdown" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 7, 2020

"Abel" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 29, 2020

"Unexpected" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 28, 2020

"Reinvent" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 24, 2020

"Ken and Montie" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 21, 2020

"We Always Come Out Ahead" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 19, 2020

"Familiar" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 16, 2020

"Sally" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 15, 2020

"In My Blood" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 13, 2020

"Inaceptable" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 9, 2020

"Zoe" - Kelly campaign ad, released Aug. 18, 2020

"#FullSpeedAhead" - Kelly campaign ad, released Aug. 5, 2020

"Work Hard" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 30, 2020

"Off the Table" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 30, 2020

"Sueño" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 23, 2020

"Future" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Mark Kelly Patrolled the South China Sea" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Mark Kelly Calls China an Adversary" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"3 Million" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Come Out Ahead" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Mission" - Kelly campaign ad, released July 20, 2020

"Protect" - Kelly campaign ad, released March 23, 2020

"Growing Up" - Kelly campaign ad, released Feb. 20, 2020

"Inspired" - Kelly campaign ad, released Jan. 16, 2020

Opposing McSally

"I Support Mark" - Kelly campaign ad, released Oct. 3, 2020

"Her Record" - Kelly campaign ad, released Sept. 16, 2020

"Arizona Isn't Playing" - Kelly campaign ad, released Aug. 31, 2020

### Satellite group ads[edit]

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#### Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee[edit]

Opposing McSally

"Again" - DSCC campaign ad, released Oct. 15, 2020

"Chopping Block" - DSCC campaign ad, released Oct. 3, 2020

#### MoveOn.org[edit]

Opposing McSally

"Before It's Too Late" - MoveOn ad, released Oct. 7, 2020

"Mija" - MoveOn ad, released Oct. 7, 2020

#### Senate Leadership Fund[edit]

Opposing Kelly

"We Need" - Senate Leadership Fund campaign ad, released Oct. 17, 2020

* "Millionaire Mark Kelly" - Senate Leadership Fund ad, accessed September 24, 2020

#### Senate Majority PAC[edit]

Opposing McSally

* "Over and Over" - Senate Majority PAC ad, accessed September 24, 2020

## Debates and forums[edit]

### October 22 candidate forum[edit]

On Oct. 22, 2020, McSally and Kelly participated in a candidate forum hosted by Univision Arizona.[50]

Click on the links below for summaries of the candidate forum from:

* Univision Arizona
* The Arizona Republic

### October 6 debate[edit]

On Oct. 6, 2020, McSally and Kelly participated in a debate hosted by Arizona PBS, the Arizona Republic, KJZZ, and Arizona Public Media.[52]

"2020 Senate Debate: Martha McSally vs Mark Kelly" - Official livestream, Oct. 6, 2020

Click on the links below for summaries of the debate from:

* Arizona Public Media
* KVOA
* The Arizona Republic
* Phoenix Business Journal
* KAWC
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* Fox 10 Phoenix

## Campaign themes[edit]

See also: Campaign themes

###  Martha McSally[edit]

McSally's campaign website stated the following:

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Bipartisanship in a Partisan Time

From her time serving in the House and now in the Senate, Martha goes to Washington, not with an “R” on her jersey, but with an “AZ” on her jersey.

When she served in the House of Representatives, Martha worked across the aisle to pass bills that were signed into law under a Democrat administration. Now, with a Republican Senate and White House, she has continued that track record of bipartisanship to deliver results for Arizonans. Martha’s work with President Trump has put Arizona and America first on every issue.

Since becoming a senator for Arizona, an independent organization ranked Martha the sixth most bipartisan senator and she tied for #1 of ALL 100 senators for the most bills signed into law. It is her commitment to working with anyone to get things done that has made her an effective champion for Arizonans. Some of her signature achievements in Congress include:

*     * Crafting and voting for a Republican-led tax cut package that saved the average Arizona family $2,000 each year;
* Introducing and working across the aisle to pass legislation to authorize the historic, multi-state Colorado River Drought
* Contingency Plan to secure Arizona’s water future;
* Successfully fighting to restore control of lands to Arizonans through five land exchanges;
* And creating a nationwide Veterans Treatment Court program to provide our heroes with treatment they need to recover from the invisible wounds of war.

COVID-19 Relief for Arizona Families

This first-in-a-century pandemic has impacted so many Arizonans, who have found themselves out of work through no fault of their own. Martha is leading the charge to ease the burden the coronavirus has put on individuals and businesses. She crafted and voted for the CARES Act to get immediate, direct cash relief to individuals and provide small businesses with funding to keep their employees on the payroll. The relief she fought for and delivered to Arizonans included:

*     * $9 billion in relief funding for Arizona businesses;
* $25 billion nationwide for research, development, manufacture, and administration of testing, so that it could be provided at no cost to patients;
* $175 billion nationwide to support hospitals treating coronavirus patients;
* $8 billion in COVID relief funds for tribal governments across the country—the largest appropriations for tribes in U.S. history;
* $10 billion to protect residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the country; and
* An additional $600 a week in unemployment to help those laid off due to the pandemic.

As a result of her request, the Treasury Department granted states and cities additional flexibility in order to use the funding they received in the CARES Act in a way that best suits their communities.

Martha is standing up to China for their role in unleashing this virus on us. China lied to the world and covered up this virus for months, and Martha is leading on several pieces of legislation to ensure they are held responsible. The Chinese Communist Party has even threatened to sanction Martha because she has been an outspoken leader in the effort to hold them accountable. She will not quit in her fight against the Communist Chinese regime.

She is working to bring manufacturing of essential products—such as personal protective equipment (PPE) and prescription drugs—home from China, and ensuring we stop shipping our jobs overseas.

Unlike her opponent, who is beholden to China through his long relationship with the regime and multiple business entanglements, Martha is standing up to them and putting Arizonans and Americans first.

Border Security

Arizonans understand that border security is national security, and Martha is your border security senator. She has worked with the Trump Administration to fund more than 300 miles of new border wall system at our southern border. Martha will always stand behind our border patrol agents and has voted to ensure they have everything they need to do their jobs safely. To that end, she advocated and voted for additional funding for:

*     * Construction of additional border wall system along the southern border;
* Hiring border patrol agents and officers to address staffing shortages and patrol the border and ports of entry;
* The modernization and construction of ports of entry, as well as technology to facilitate legitimate trade and travel;
* Expanding border surveillance capabilities through sensors and radars along our borders; and
* Air assistance to our agents on the ground through both fixed wing and rotary aircraft.

For her relentless efforts as Arizona’s Border Senator, Martha once again received the endorsement of the National Border Patrol Council, representing more than 18,000 agents. They support her in this election because of her commitment to the men and women who work hard every day to keep our country and communities safe.

Defense & Veterans

Martha served our country honorably for 26 years in the U.S. Air Force. She was the first woman in U.S. history to fly a fighter jet in combat and command a fighter squadron in combat. She deployed to the Middle East and Afghanistan six times and flew 325 combat hours in the mighty A-10 warthog. She retired as a colonel in 2010.

Under the Obama-Biden administration, our military was decimated. They cut our military by 25%, creating the worst readiness crisis in a generation. Not only did these spending cuts erode our strategic edge over our adversaries, but it also led to an unacceptable increase in loss of lives during training and safety risks.

Martha has worked with the Trump administration to rebuild our military and give them the resources they need to protect the homeland and defend our allies from bad actors around the globe.

Martha channeled her own experience as a survivor of military sexual assault into fighting for our servicewomen. In 2019, 17 of her 18 provisions to combat sexual assault in the military made it into the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law.

She went to bat to secure funding for critical military assets housed in Arizona, including saving the A-10 at Davis-Monthan AFB and funding the F-35 at Luke AFB and Yuma Marine Corps Air Station. She also helped secure additional parental leave for servicemembers after the birth or adoption of a new child, fought for the largest pay raise in a decade, and is leading to remove career barriers for military spouses like costly licensing fees.

There is no better champion for our men and women in uniform than Martha McSally.

Economy

Before China unleashed this pandemic on us, our economy was the strongest it’s been in our lifetime. At 3.5%, unemployment was at the lowest point in over half a century. There was record low unemployment for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. We had the lowest poverty rate in more than 50 years.

With the leadership of Martha McSally and Republicans in Congress, the president signed into law historic tax cuts that saved the average middle-class Arizona family $2,000 every year. That means more money back in your pockets.

Amid this historic growth, 71% of the new jobs last year went to women, and 22 million families have benefited from the doubling of the child tax credit—Senator McSally is working to make that permanent for Arizona families.

Together with the Trump Administration, Martha has supported unprecedented regulatory relief for American businesses, farmers and ranchers, and workers. She supported the repeal of 16 regulations that were imposed through executive overreach under President Obama. These burdensome regulations were costly to American households and small businesses. Their repeal saved the economy $4.1 billion. Martha is also leading on legislation to rein in unelected federal bureaucrats by requiring that Congress affirmatively approve every new agency rule that would have an annual economic impact of at least $100 million.

Democrats not only want to undo the middle-class tax cuts and deregulation Martha fought for, but they also plan to implement the largest tax increase in modern history. They think they know how to spend your money better than you do. Martha is standing up against the Democrats’ plan to take more money out of your wallets.

Health Care

Everywhere she goes, Martha hears from Arizonans who can’t afford their health insurance or the high cost of their prescription drugs. Under Obamacare, Arizonans’ premiums skyrocketed and their deductibles were so high making the insurance unusable. The unaffordable, broken, government-run health care system the Democrats want to expand would close rural hospitals collapse Medicare, raise taxes, and eliminate private insurance, kicking more than 178 million Americans off of their employer-based health plans.

Both Republicans and Democrats agree on protecting people with pre-existing conditions, and Martha has a record of co-sponsoring and voting for legislation to protect people with pre-existing conditions. But when Arizonans can’t afford their premiums and prescriptions because of unaffordable costs under Obamacare, that doesn’t protect people with pre-existing conditions. While Democrats work to maintain and expand bureaucratic, government-run health care that isn’t work for Arizonans, Martha is working with her colleagues on both sides of the aisle to implement a better solution to bring down costs and provide more choices to families.

The high cost of prescription drugs is one of the top concerns of Arizonans. Too many Arizonans and seniors are forced to split pills or leave medication on the pharmacy counter due to sticker shock and exorbitant costs. Martha is taking on big Pharma and introduced her own bill to lower the cost of prescription drugs. She is a co-sponsor of other solutions that are working toward the same goal.

Second Amendment

Martha is Arizona’s Second Amendment senator. As an A-10 pilot, she protected our ground troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan and shot the biggest gun of anyone in Congress!

Martha put her life on the line to protect our Constitutional freedoms, including the Second Amendment. As a veteran, gun-owner, and conservative, Martha is standing up to the radical activists who are seeking to rollback our rights.

Martha’s record serving Arizona in Congress shows that she has worked to protect due process for veterans and seniors, while strengthening the existing background check system.

Public Safety

Our law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every day for our safety, and they deserve our unending respect and gratitude.

Martha’s commitment to backing the blue earned her the endorsement of the Arizona Police Association, an organization representing more than 12,000 uniformed officers in our state. They know she will always stand up for them and make sure they have the resources they need to keep our communities safe.

While Martha and her fellow Republicans believe in supporting law enforcement, the growing reckless calls on the Left to defund the police are dangerous and would leave our families less safe.

We must continue to ensure our communities are safe for all Arizonans, and that includes advocating responsible policing reforms. Martha co-sponsored and supported Senator Tim Scott’s policing reform legislation that would have: provided more training for police officers in de-escalation and the duty to intervene; made lynching a federal hate crime; created a national policing commission to conduct a review of the U.S. criminal justice system; collected data on use of force by police; banned the use of chokeholds by federal officers and withhold federal funds to state and local law enforcement agencies that do not ban them; and withheld federal money to police departments that fail to report to the Justice Department when no-knock warrants are used. Not a single Democrat would support this meaningful legislation.

Sanctity of Life

Martha has a strong record of upholding the sanctity of life and believes taxpayers should not be forced to fund abortions. She is pro-life and supports three exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, or if the life of mother is at risk.

Martha has consistently advocated for funding for low income women to get access to birth control and for contraceptives to be available over the counter.

One of the greatest tragedies of the modern Democrat Party is their unabashed embrace of abortion without any restrictions. As it stands the United States is one of only seven countries that allows late term abortions—including China and North Korea. This is unacceptable. She believes we must stand up and protect the innocent lives of unborn babies.

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—Martha McSally's 2020 campaign website[63]

###  Mark Kelly[edit]

Kelly's campaign website stated the following:

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Mark Believes Health Care Is A Right

Health Care
As a cancer survivor and the husband of Gabby Giffords, who was nearly killed in a shooting and owes her life to quality medical care, Mark has a deep appreciation for the importance of health care and coverage that you can rely on. Mark knows that he and Gabby were fortunate to have good insurance that covered the lifesaving care they needed, but that many Arizona families lack affordable health coverage.

Mark believes health care is a right. Every Arizonan should have quality health care that covers them if they get sick or need a specialist. 2.8 million Arizonans have a pre-existing condition, and none of them should lose their health insurance or be unable to attain insurance in the first place because of their pre-existing condition.

Even with reforms made to expand health care access, too many Arizonans lack coverage or are paying more out of pocket for doctor visits, deductibles, and especially prescription drugs. Mark will work to fix what is broken with our healthcare system by providing more options and competition to reduce costs. And all of that starts with ending partisan attacks that have driven up costs and threatened to take away coverage from more than 400,000 Arizonans who get their insurance through the expansion of Medicaid, known as AHCCCS, in Arizona.

Mark supports:

* Ensuring every Arizonan has health insurance, and that those with pre-existing conditions are covered with insurance they can afford.
* A public health care option that would compete with private insurers.
* Taking on the pharmaceutical industry to lower the cost of prescription drug costs.
* More transparency for and oversight of hospital costs.
* Cracking down on bad actors responsible for the opioid epidemic.

Mark Won't Rest Until Veterans Get What They Have Earned

Veterans
Arizona is home to seven military bases, and there are more than a half million Arizonans who have served in the military. As a Navy combat veteran, it’s important to Mark that our country keeps its promises to our veterans and delivers the care and benefits they have earned through their service.

There is an urgent need for improvement. Nearly 900 veterans go to sleep homeless every night in Arizona. And more than 200 veterans commit suicide in Arizona every year, one of the highest rates in the country. Not to mention the continued accountability and wait time issues at the Phoenix and Tucson VAs.

From the G.I. Bill to the VA, Mark understands we need veterans services to work for our changing veteran population. That includes aging and injured veterans who need prompt, quality health care, and young veterans who need mental health care or are looking to translate the skills they learned from their service into a good-paying job.

There needs to be an increased culture of accountability at the VA: a focus on each individual veteran, not the paperwork. Every veteran has taken risks and made sacrifices in service to our country, and Mark won’t rest until they get what they have earned.

Mark Will Be A Champion For Working Arizonans And Arizona's Middle Class

Economy and Jobs
Mark is the son of two police officers and the product of a working-class family and pschieblic schools. Mark’s parents taught him how to set and reach really hard goals. Those lessons are what gave him the foundation to enter military service and become a combat pilot, engineer, and astronaut.

Mark believes a strong economy is built from the ground up, giving every Arizonan the opportunity to succeed and achieve their American dream. But for many Arizona families today, job opportunities and wages are not keeping up with the rising costs of healthcare, prescription drugs, education, housing, and retirement. Instead of standing up for the middle class, Washington has given a tax break to the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.

Mark understands that increasing opportunity in Arizona means supporting economic drivers like trade, tourism, and the military, while also making investments in research and development that benefit the emerging tech and renewable energy sectors. And that in order to prepare Arizonans to fill these jobs of the future, we need to make workforce development more accessible and affordable.

Mark will be a champion for working Arizonans and Arizona’s middle class. Mark supports:

* Ending the tax breaks for the super wealthy and big corporations that are exploding the national debt while not benefiting working and middle class Arizonans.
* Investing now in things that will pay off for our country down the road, like infrastructure and research and development.

Mark Will Fight To Ensure That America Keeps Its Promise To Arizona Seniors

Medicare and Social Security
America made a promise to protect the health and wellbeing of its seniors. Mark will fight to ensure that America keeps that promise to Arizonans. Over lifetimes, workers and small businesses have contributed into Social Security and Medicare so workers could have a secure retirement that includes health care.

Many Arizona seniors rely on Social Security as a key source of income. Mark opposes legislation weakening Social Security or efforts to gamble seniors’ retirement security in the stock market.

Medicare is also a solemn promise made to Arizona’s seniors. Recently, Washington politicians proposed cutting over 800 billion dollars from Medicare. Mark opposes these proposed cuts. Mark also opposes efforts to change Medicare as we know it and turn it into a voucher system.

Mark Believes That We Need A Secure Border And To Fix Our Broken Immigration System

Border Security and Immigration
Like most of our neighbors in Arizona, Mark believes that we need a strong, secure border and to fix our broken immigration system. There is no other issue where the state of Arizona has suffered more due to the dysfunction in Washington. While Washington argues the politics, we deal with the consequences.

Mark believes that any system starts with strong border security; this includes more investments in technology, well staffed ports of entry and border patrol agents on the border, and, where effective, physical barriers and fencing.

Improving programs like E-Verify will prevent big corporations from exploiting migrant labor and undercutting American wages. Some of Arizona’s ports of entry are literally crumbling, and desperately need infrastructure improvements.

This will make border crossings more secure from drug and other types of trafficking, while improving the trade that creates jobs in Arizona.

Mark also knows that we can fix our broken immigration system, but in a way that is true to our values, provides for the workforce we need, and doesn’t separate children from their parents. Mark supports protecting DREAMers – including the more than 25,500 individuals who call Arizona home – who were brought here as children, have been educated here, and played by the rules.

Public Education Should Prepare Arizonans To Thrive In A Rapidly-Changing Economy

Education
Mark is the product of public education, from elementary school through the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. And as an engineer and astronaut, Mark knows that every goal we have — fixing our healthcare system, protecting our climate and our Earth, and growing our economy for everyone — starts with a great education for every American, one that prepares them for great jobs today, and in the future.

That means starting young – expanding access to quality early childhood education for everyone. That means a K-12 education system that treats teachers like valued professionals, paying them a decent wage and giving them the tools they need – materials, resources, and support to grow in the profession — to succeed.

In Arizona we have seen teachers across the state stand up and demand change. Mark is proud to stand with teachers as they fight for higher pay and more funding. It also means ensuring all students have access to STEM classes and advanced placement classes.

Because whether you go on to college, to get a trade certificate, or directly to a job that pays a living wage, your education should prepare you to thrive in a rapidly-changing economy. All our kids, regardless of the path they take, need some post-secondary training to compete in a 21st Century economy. Right now, there are 5.9 million job openings in the country, many of which cannot be filled for lack of trained, qualified workers. We need to invest more in career training, apprenticeship programs and work to streamline professional certification.

Arizona has three world class universities and a strong community college system. And as the proud parent of an Arizona State University student, Mark knows what a great public higher education institution can do for its students and our economy — and he’s committed to making sure more students gain that experience without the burden of crushing debt.

That can start with fully funding Pell Grants and other financial aid, and lowering interest rates on federal student loans. The federal government should never use our students and their families to make money. The point isn’t to get a piece of paper and a big bill at the end of your education — it’s to make sure every American can build a comfortable life and contribute to a country that leads the world in innovation and stability.

As A Navy Pilot, Mark Swore An Oath To Defend The United States

National Security
As a Navy pilot, Mark swore an oath to defend the United States. Mark became a Naval aviator under President Ronald Reagan, and served under subsequent Presidents both Republican and Democrat. He flew into combat during Operation Desert Storm on orders from President George H.W. Bush.

Mark will work across the aisle to ensure that nothing stands in the way of keeping our military strong and our country safe. From Luke and Davis-Monthan Air Force Bases, to Yuma and Fort Huachuca, Arizona plays a critical role in our national security strategy and the federal investment in our military assets plays a critical role in Arizona’s economy. Mark is committed to protecting these bases and their place in America’s national security strategy.

Mark flew 39 combat missions and understands the importance of a strong military, but he believes first and foremost in the value of diplomacy. He will work with our allies and partners to tackle our shared threats. He will ensure that the United States remains a global leader and that our allies know that they can continue to trust us. Mark is committed to rebuilding our traditional alliances and restoring American leadership in the world.

Mark Supports The Kinds Of Policies That Empower Women

Women's Rights
From his mom, one of the first women to become a police officer in West Orange New Jersey, to his wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, to his two daughters, Claudia and Claire, Mark Kelly is surrounded by strong women who’ve fought for equality and opportunity. Mark supports the kinds of policies that empower women to achieve great things, plan and support their families while thriving in the workplace, and give women the opportunity to fight for themselves, in the workplace and beyond.

Mark supports every woman’s right to choose how and when to start her family. He’ll reject efforts to make it harder for women to access vital health care services, whether reproductive health care for themselves or critical programs like CHIP and WIC that help women and children stay healthy. And as a spouse who had to balance work and caring for an injured family member after his wife Gabby was shot, Mark knows that everyone in this country deserves a decent paid family leave policy — and that doesn’t mean telling folks to borrow against their own savings and then work longer and longer.

Mark knows that if we remove barriers to women’s success, our economy will benefit. Equal pay is a justice and family issue, and women of color are more likely to be subject to wage discrimination. Most families rely on two-incomes, and Mark committed to eradicating the wage gap between men and women, and doing more to ensure that women are treated fairly – and paid a living wage.

Mark Is A Gun Owner And Advocate For Commonsense Gun Laws

Gun Safety
Mark is a gun owner and a combat veteran, the husband of Gabby Giffords who was nearly killed in a shooting, and an advocate for commonsense, effective gun laws. Mark understands that a commitment to our rights and traditions is in no way incompatible with working to keep us safe from gun violence.

Arizona families regularly experience the tragedy of gun violence. Every year, the state sees an average of 244 gun homicides, 669 firearms suicides, 582 nonfatal shootings, and 553 accidental shootings.

Mark and Gabby co-founded Giffords, one of the nation’s leading gun safety organizations that brings together families, gun owners, veterans, law enforcement, and others to advocate for stronger gun safety laws that save lives.

Mark will stand up to the gun lobby and fight to protect Arizona kids and communities from gun violence. He will keep kids and communities safer by working to pass universal background checks, to keep guns out of the hands of stalkers and domestic abusers, and reduce mass shootings and suicides by allowing families and law enforcement to ensure dangerous individuals and people in crisis don’t have access to firearms.

Climate Change Poses A Threat To Arizona's Economy And Our Way Of Life

Climate Change and Environment
Left unchecked, climate change poses a threat to Arizona’s economy and our way of life. In 2018, Phoenix had 128 days over 100 degrees. A warming climate means twice as many days over 100 degrees in Phoenix, which endangers Arizona’s economy. Longer and more severe droughts will also restrict Arizona’s access to clean water and pose increased public health risks.

As one of the nation’s leading producers of renewable energy, this is also an opportunity for Arizona. The sector already employs 10,500 people in the state. We can triple that number, but only by making massive investments in research and development of technologies that make renewable energy more competitive and accelerate the transition to a renewable economy. The only thing stopping us is irresponsible leadership in Washington.

Mark has seen the planet change from space, and wanting to stop that and protect our state and our planet is part of what inspired him to run. Mark knows that if we harness the power of American ingenuity and determination, we can mitigate the risks of climate change, create thousands of good-paying jobs in Arizona, and continue to lead the world in technology, manufacturing and science.

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###  Mohammad Arif (write-in)[edit]

Arif's campaign website stated the following:

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Mission and Vision
Mohammad Arif feels a duty to serve and give back to United States of America that gave him soo much. He got his shot at the American dream, and he’ll keep working to make sure all Arizonians get theirs too.

Democrats Have A Mission And A Message
We’re fighting on behalf of the notion that anyone, from any walk of life, should have a fair shot at the American Dream. [62]

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###  Matthew Dorchester (write-in)[edit]

Dorchester's campaign website stated the following:

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The Republican, Democratic, and Independent Parties have failed in delivering the American dream.

How have they done it?

* Wasteful impeachment proceedings,
* Economically infeasible Medicare for all proposals,
* Eroding the 2nd Amendment,
* Quasi-legal H1Bs replacing American workers,
* Increased taxes (to pay for the rich not paying their tax share) through inflation,
* Open borders allowing terrorists and rapists free reign to our children, family and friends.

The political elite, through the news media, say we're ignorant, weak and need to be told how to live our lives. They slap our collective faces as our 40-hour a week job raises their standard of living. They promised to represent us. Instead, they have STOLEN our Country. It's time we take it back. On November 3, 2020, go to a polling center. On the ballot write-in Matthew "Doc" Dorchester for United States Senate. Let's make history!

Libertarian? Democrat? Independent?

Take back your State from billionaires. A write-in vote is free of influence. It's a guarantee for freedom. Elect the first US Senator in Arizona history by write-in vote in the November 3, 2020 general election. Without spending a dime.

Serving The Community

Matthew "Doc" Dorchester has been part of the Phoenix Metropolitan area for over 30 years working as a health care provider to make it a better place. Tens of Thousands of dollars have been donated yearly in health care services. I want people to know it's about being the best version of one's self.

United By A Common Goal

* Coronavirus proactive;
* Obama Care reform - family deductible $500, individual $250;
* Social Security yearly payout increase of 20% beginning 2022;
* Spouse receives 100% of decedent (spouse's) Social Security benefit;
* Improved border security;
* 2 Amendment - NO restriction;
* $20 out-of-pocket maximum for ALL RX drugs;
* $5000 yearly voucher for kindergarten through 8th grade;
* 90-Day immigration approval/denial-citizenship for qualified non-citizens;
* Section 230 status elimination for all social media (Facebook, Twitter etc);
* Capital gains tax increase of 10% for each taxable income bracket.

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###  Nicholas Glenn (Independent Republican write-in)[edit]

Glenn's campaign website stated the following:

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My fellow Americans unfortunately we live in a country run by the two party system and it will take cooperation between the two political parties to resolve this country's greatest issues. A president has his/her administration can only move this country so far with executive orders and policy changes. With any positive gains and accomplishments that were achieved by any administration can be negated by the next administration. My goal is to move this country forward by getting enough center-right and center-left politicians to work together to legislative into law the president's successful polices and revisit some of the country's most controversial issues in history so that we can move forward and resolve our country's greatest problems. So what do I stand for, the long-term solution not a temporary political one. America you elected this president to drain the swamp so send me to Congress to stir the pot. "You must ask yourself as a future leader of America are you here to take on the burden of leadership or promise the world then do nothing and get rich." By Nicholas N. Glenn [62]

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—Nicholas Glenn's 2020 campaign website[67]

###  Perry Kapadia (write-in)[edit]

Kapadia's campaign website stated the following:

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Help Me Help You Get Back What is Ours

Get back our jobs, our money, our opportunity, our children's future, our freedom

Perry Kapadia stands with the working poor, struggling small businesses, the honest people who are trying to make a living out of hard work and are unable to make ends meet. I WANT YOUR VOTE to be in the U.S. Senate and be able to ask these questions and seek answers for how to make things better for our families, and our future generations.

Everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed, equal opportunity, quality education, commitment to hard work, comfortably adequate compensation, security, and the freedom to pursue our dreams. PERRY KAPADIA for the U.S. SENATE, a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE fights each and every day to ensure that the community is advancing towards meeting these principles. Read on to learn about some of the issues at hand Perry is passionate about and wants to do as your Senator.

Family & Friends
Close to Heart

Perry, who lives with his wife Komal, their daughter Venus, and their son Mars, have called Arizona their home. Living few miles away from his parents, Perry in his household wears many hats: that of a husband, father, son, friend, visionary, handyman, dishwasher, landscaper, yard worker, and last but certainly not the least, other duties as assigned (this is the most called upon!). He wants to lead and facilitate the policies that encourage these family values in our society. Every decision that is made should be carefully seen as to how it impacts the hearts of our family & friends. More than ever, we now need PERRY KAPADIA for U.S. SENATE, a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE for his Unpolitical Decisive Arizona Family-Style Voice at the U.S. Capitol.

High Paying Jobs is out future
Financial Freedom for Hard Working Poor

This particular issue has been increasingly gaining coverage all over the world. Why exactly? It is an issue that needs to be addressed and heavily discussed among politicians, lobbyists, and congressmen alike. The greatest nation in the world with an extremely high unemployment rate doesn't make any logical sense.Neither does Arizona with the most stable geological environment with low income and high unemployment make any sense. We are naturally saved from calamities like earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes. And we have an abundance of untapped natural sunlight to generate clean solar electricity to power our state. The technology industry diversifying into tech, healthcare, education, and all phases of life has some of the highest paying jobs and they want to come to Arizona for our geologically stable geographic location, an abundance of sunlight, and great work ethics of the people of Arizona. All they want is a politically forward-thinking can-do attitude to safeguard their investment and growth. I am from the technology industry and am ready to provide insight on policies and persuasion needed to transform Arizona into a financially prosperous state with high paying jobs equipped via industry-leading technology certification.PERRY KAPADIA for U.S. SENATE, a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE is pushing for change and doing everything to see a brighter future. Join the cause of prosperity today and vote for Perry Kapadia.

Health & Safety
Pandemic Covid-19

PERRY KAPADIA for U.S. SENATE, a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE, is truly passionate about the health and safety of our community, as it is one that impacts every Arizonan. I will not settle until our state and nation have a method in place to fight our health issues such as cancer and heart disease which is one of the highest in the nation. If we are guided by the needs of our people and backed by the scientific, evidence-based research of the experts. We shall have the necessary resources, all we need is a willing leadership like me to help us out in chartering policies that empower us for a healthy life.

Education
Quality Education, Educators Pay, Student Debt

Education is the most fundamental reason for state advances. It is the lifeblood of an individual's future, the future of a family, the future generations, and the nation as a whole. We have the third-highest high school drop out rate, sixth-lowest median ACT score, and the highest student to teacher ratio in the nation. Arizona also has the second-lowest state for teacher pay. PERRY KAPADIA for the U.S. SENATE, a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE, has fought for change and will keep fighting for a debt-free education for those who seek to attain it. There are many ways to make a profit, but education and health are certainly not to be profited from. They are the building blocks of a prosperous society and should be encouraged and facilitated for all.

Veteran Financial & Health Security
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Our Veterans are our heroes of this great state and nation. Our policies should reflect those sentiments in a way that reminds them for the rest of their lives that their nation is there for them as they were there for the nation. They should always have the confidence of a livable comfortable financial and healthy future. I will work towards eliminating the everyday struggle they have just to access what should be rightfully theirs. All we need as a nation is to thank them for their service sincerely in a meaningful way that they admire. [62]

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###  John Schiess (write-in)[edit]

Schiess' campaign website stated the following:

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A General Statement

Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking", Norman Vincent Peale once said, "Americans used to roar like lions for freedom, now they bleat like sheep for security. Peace, freedom and prosperity depend upon our moral choices. Do we chose virtue or vice , independence or interdependence, security or liberty? It's always easier to pass the buck through socialism. Why earn it when you can use government to steal it from your neighbor?

Do you want unequal prosperity or equal poverty? The America's prosperity is based on the right to keep property earned. Without that incentive, there isn't any reason to work, risk, or save. It leads to a higher standard of living for all and lowers it if destroyed. History has already proven it. Is America headed for Soviet Amerika? Now is the time chose!

How did Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone do it?.....especially without any insurance! If President Obama met Daniel Boone at the Cumberland Gap, he would be ticketed for not having covered wagon and horse insurance, or maybe not having a seat belt. Mr. Boone might also be in trouble for unregistered firearms, children not registered in school, and the lack of healthcare insurance.

Centralized power was the basic definition of tyranny used by the Founders of our Republic. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Such is the direction George Bush has taken us and President Obama is completing the task. Take the Creator out of the equation, and we go from the concept of unalienable rights to state determined rights, from a Republic to a democracy. We create the vicious cycle of immorality, war and dictatorial government.

Lincoln once said no enemy could take drink from the Ohio River without help from within. We as a nation and state are living in a great time of Quisling leaders in high places. The Communist(ICC) International Criminal Conspiracy(FBI term) has long dreamed of taking over one or both political parties. Judge them by their works. Kruschev said he would bury our grandchildren and that we would fall like a ripe plum.

Many states have done so through the communist homosexual movement alone! Through the UN, they want cap and trade, healthcare, greater use of the homosexuality movement, illegal invasion, slave reparations, watermelon environmentalism, popular vote and more needs, rather than rights government. The communist left is winning on all fronts. NEEDS ARE NOT RIGHTS! They cannot co-exist. Our President, democrats, and rhino republicans support these goals.

Our greatest threat is not outward clear around the world; but inward with up to 50% of our own citizens choosing to line up with the moral, political, and economic goals of the former Soviet Union. We need to clean the inward vessel before the outward vessel can be cleansed. Because of the poor moral climate of our country, al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood call us the "great Satan". They want to give us Sharia law instead of Natural law. To put it another way, we need to clean our own dirty doorstep first!.

We are a nation founded upon the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. So, I will risk a religious statement from the founder of Pennsylvania. William Penn said,"Tyranny begins where God leaves off." What a wise and profound statement! Many words can be plugged into it. So.....what is your problem?!

The greatest accomplishments require the greatest risks. Security has never lead to greatness! In the next 6 months, we are in perilous danger of losing our LIBERTY and our way of life.

Abortion and Stem Cell Research

I am against all government funded abortions and am against 98%? of them generally. My religion recognizes three exceptions: Life of the mother, rape or incest, and gross deformity. This decision is made by chose of the family in counsel with church leaders. This decision is made as early as possible, in the first trimester.

To quote Cal Thomas, "the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego announced the discovery of a new technique that makes artificial stem cells safer for human transplantation.

The artificial cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, are made from fully differentiated adult cells, regressed back into an embryonic-like state. These act-alike embryonic stem cells don't carry the ethical difficulties of real embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos."

Agenda 21

Also known as Sustainable Development, is designed to shift control of local government away from local citizens and place them into the hands of the United Nations. It even includes the the idea of limiting the number of children a couple may have.

It is a direct attack on private property, moving our country more in line with communist goal of all property being controlled by the state. People can be forced off their lands to be replaced by "favored" peoples or be just be reverted back to wilderness. Do we now know how "Comrade" Obama will place 25,000 Hamas in these United States!?

The end of the Cold War fooled people into thinking Communism was dead. Such was the plan of the Soviets decades before. as, the former President of the Czech Republic said, the just moved into the environmental movement.

Communists have become a serious problem within local governments, especially in Madison. The Russian word for committees is "soviet". It replaces individual rights with community oversight. The overseers are the bureaucrats. Sounds too much like the kind of government we already have!

The Bushes and the Clintons were very active in setting the stage for Agenda 21(and also for the North American Union). Other groups involved are the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, NGO's, and the NEA.

George Washington said that private property and freedom are inseparable. There has been a steady erosion of property rights in the United States and Agenda 21 will will destroy it completely.

The UN definition of property rights includes rights for biodiversity, giving rights to plants and trees, and animals(of course,we homo sapiens are left out. Biodiversity will be represented by socialist and world planners. It will lead to the destruction of farming ....and mass starvation. Is not this is the same characteristic of every country taken over by the communists?

These are the goals of the UN globalists:

1) Abolish private property.
2) Base world government on public decree; not individual rights.
3) Reduce human populations.
4) Subvert the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
5) Destroy the governing authority of the United States Constitution.
6) Turn America into a "homeland" where human beings are treated as biological resources subject to human rights.(as opposed to inalienable rights).

Alinsky

Chicago Organizing
Resolution Requested:

Saul Alinsky and Ending Chicago-Style
Community Organizing in Wisconsin

Whereas, Saul Alinsky was born in 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, and today is known as the Father of All Community Organizing in America; and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky, wrote two books, Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals. In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky gave special acknowledgement to Satan with these words, “the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer,” and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Reveille for Radicals are now recommended and promoted by the National Education Association, colleges, and liberal-leaning organizations to further the advancement of Socialism-based policies in America; and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky focused his time and effort on what is known as Church-based community organizing because he needed the influence, the power, and the credibility of Churches to fund and carry out his deceptive political agenda even though he was an atheist himself; and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky founded the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago influencing such individuals as Hillary Clinton and Wade Rathke of ACORN. The Wisconsin Chapter of IAF is located in Milwaukee and is known as Common Ground; and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky’s national influence was instrumental in the founding of other community organizing groups such as the Gamaliel Foundation of Chicago, the organization that Barack Obama worked for as a community organizer trainer. The Wisconsin branch of the Gamaliel Foundation is called WISDOM and operates the following chapters across our state: RIC (Racine), CUSH (Kenosha), MICAH (Milwaukee), SOPHIA (Waukesha), RUTH (Manitowoc), ESTHER (Appleton), JOSHUA (Green Bay), AMOS (LaCrosse), JONAH (Eau Claire), and NAOMI (Wausau), and until recently JOB (Beloit); and

Whereas, Saul Alinsky’s legacy is taking root in many unsuspecting Churches and faith communities in Wisconsin under the guise of “Social Justice” in order to advance big government and Socialist policies. Churches* of all denominations are susceptible to Alinskyian deception and must guard the integrity of the Gospel as well as the collection plate and tax-exempt status by not funding Chicago-based organizations; and

Whereas, the experience of countries around the world has proven that socialism is a failed system that leaves nothing but misery and financial ruin in its wake; and

Whereas, we believe in free enterprise, individual freedoms, limited government, and self-determination; and

Now Therefore Be It Resolved, the _________ County Chapter of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, in caucus:

1) Rejects the growing influence of Saul Alinsky’s legacy on our country as well as the growing Chicago-Based Community Organizing network operating in Wisconsin’s communities and Churches; and
2) Stands in unity with our Founding Fathers in recognizing that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and firmly believe our Churches serve our communities best when they are Christ-centered, teach Biblical truths, and reject the tenets of Chicago-Style Community Organizing; and
3) Recognizes that the number one way to end poverty in America is through the promotion of One Man-One Woman Marriage rather than bloated government programs, especially with 41% of America’s children currently being born out of wedlock; and
4) Rejects the use of funding from Wisconsin’s taxpayers and Churches for Chicago-Style Community Organizing; and
5) Will work to educate Churches and their members about the need to promote the Sanctity of Marriage and Family and resist sending Wisconsin’s Church dollars over the border to fund such Chicago organizations as Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation and the Gamaliel Foundation; and
6) Recognizes the need to more fully involve citizens across Wisconsin role in the policy-making process especially at our State Capitol when public hearings are held and not allow Chicago-Style Community Organizers to determine public policies for our state; and
7) Will stand with principled legislators that readily reject the Alinskyian agenda for our state and protect said legislators from public attacks by organizations pushing a big government agenda; and
8) Resists the NEA’s promotion of Alinskyian tactics and will not stand by while another generation of school children is inundated with Alinsky’s Rules and radical rhetoric. Continuation of this kind of ideology will only serve to undermine the ideals of The Republic and society which depends on public schools and colleges to serve the needs of the public -- not subvert the role of parents to bring up their children as they see fit.

* For example, Wisconsin’s Catholic Bishops gave the above Chicago-based organizations $172,000 in 2009, and nationally, the Catholic Bishops gave $7.3 Million to ACORN in past funding. Educating and protecting Wisconsin’s Churches from Chicago-Style Community Organizing is of utmost importance.

Respectfully Submitted by:
Jolene Churchill – 608-289-8122
Totally4life@yahoo.comResolution Requested:
Greater Recognition of the Contributions of Stay-At-Home Mothers and Continued Investigation of the Wisconsin Shares Tax-Funded Day Care Program

Whereas, Wisconsin's taxpayers spend in excess of $350 Million per year on the Wisconsin Shares, child care program; and

Whereas, in recent months, many news accounts have exposed the excessive fraud and abuse associated with this taxpayer-funded program; and

Whereas, these types of big government programs serve to foster personal irresponsibility and encourages an increase in the number out-of-wedlock births with current statistics showing 41% of America’s children are born to unwed mothers; and

Whereas, mothers who elect not to marry the fathers of their children are eligible for a minimum of $38,000 in tax-free benefits each year ranging from child-care, housing, and food stamps, to healthcare and college tuition; and

Whereas, similar consideration is not provided to mothers who provide in-home care for their children; and

Whereas, excessively generous government programs serve to erode the importance of fathers as a key figure in the family unit; and

Whereas, marriage is the foundation of a strong family for the purposes of raising small children; and

Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the _______ County Republican Party, in caucus, call for an ongoing investigation and much needed reform of the Wisconsin Shares program and prosecution of cases involving fraud; and

Further, calls for an end to the escalation in funding of the Wisconsin Shares program; and

Further, urges greater recognition of the contribution of stay-at-home moms by providing tax credits or deductions for married two-parent families.

Respectfully Submitted by:
Jolene Churchill – 608-289-8122
Totally4life@yahoo.com

Barron County Sex Resolution

Whereas, the communist rules for revolution call getting the youth away from religion and interested in sex and sports.

Whereas, in Dr. W. Skousen's best seller, The Naked Communist, they call for the following:

1. 24 Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
2. 25 Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, TV, and radio.
3. 26 Present HOMOSEXUALITY, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy.
4. 40 Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
5. 17 Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Whereas, FBI agent Julia Brown warns in her book, " I Testify", "to say the communist party encourages sexual immorality is to understate the facts: more appropriately may it be said the party demands it!...the party not only tolerates, not only encourages, it demands that members engage in illicit sex acts."

"I often wondered how women.....could so debase themselves..... The party tells them to recruit men, to hold men within the Party, to make them do the Party's bidding. The Party has their souls, their minds-it demands they give their bodies. They do."

Whereas, Joseph Stalin said, "America is like a healthy body and it's resistance is three fold: it's patriotism, it's morality, and it's spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."

Whereas, George Washington in his era said, "a decay of public virtue has fed the hopes of the enemy...cannot our common country, America, possess virtue enough to disappoint them?"

Be it resolved the Republican Party(of Barron County) calls for the removal from office, whether party or governmental, all citizens who by their actions give aid and comfort to this domestic cause.(and will not support the candidacy of such individuals.)

The plan for the destruction of the family and thereby a free nation has always been the same. From Al Capone in Chicago to the Kremlin in Moscow, the plan has has been as outlined in this resolution. FBI agents have written and warned our people many times about the ICC-international criminal conspiracy...the communist internationale. These goals had great success in the 60's behind such agitprop slogans as: 1) God is dead. 2) make love,not war,and 3) If it feels good,do it.

Nations are conquered by direct attack or internal subversion. This is one key step in the plan. Others can be found at afact.us. We may be facing a financial and political crisis in America, but they are only the result of a moral crisis. This resolution is represented by many fifth column politicians and citizens, regardless of party. It has been part of the plan of our Quisling President and his party...as well as Rhino Republicans!

The famous Chinese general, Sun Tsu, said, in order to conquer a nation, you must first demoralize them. Joseph Stalin said, "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." What chose will you make in defense of our liberty, our families, and our nation?!

As a candidate for Governor in 2010, I presented this resolution at the state convention. The WI GOP responded by using then candidate for congress, Sean Duffy, as the hatchet man to replace our county party leadership and remove the resolution from the county website. We were called "crazy right-wing Christians" by the new chairman. Of course, they pray and take a pledge before all their meetings...and don't want anyone to know about this attack on our two founding pillars--religion and morality. Democrats do the likewise; this resolution is what they stand for!! Apparently some who call themselves Republican stand for the same things!

China Syndrome

This was the title of an old anti-nuclear energy film starring "Communism is the Goal" Jane Fonda and Jack Lemon. The communists knew they could not keep up with the United States if we developed nuclear power, so their propaganda network, with the help of Hollywood, staged a very successful campaign to demonize nuclear energy and put an end to nuclear power plants.

Forty-five major goals of the communists in America were listed in a best seller by W. Cleon Skousen in his book, "The Naked Communist". Number 7 refers to granting recognition of Red China and admitting them to the UN. President Nixon, with the help of Newt Gingrich, recognized China and granted them most-favored nation trade status. Was this an act of patriotism....or treason?

President Roosevelt set the example back in 1933 by recognizing Stalinist Russia and betraying popular uprisings in that country, providing the necessary trade and support for Stalin to re-establish his government. This has occurred all too often since then through foreign aid to the wrong people around the world. In 1934 FDR gave us the great ponzi game, social security, that originated with the communist party.

We should only have trade with freedom loving nations. To do otherwise is to betray the hopes and dreams of those living under tyranny. Since we helped China to join the World Trade Organization, as Phyllis Schlafly reports, 46,000 US factories have been transferred to Aisa.

General Electric's Jeff Immelt moved their 115 year old X-ray division from Wisconsin to Beijing where he will invested $2 billion, train 65 engineers, and create six research centers. For opening a light plant in China, President Obama made him our Job Czar. With such friends, who needs enemies?

You mau wonder why Donald Trump has become such an expert on China! Maybe he doesn't like competition? China is building a $440 million casino near the Baltimore airport in MD and a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City! Did Governor Christie have anything to do with this?

China is also doing the following:

\- rebuilding the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge
\- built 7 US schools
\- trying to build 10,000 to 30,000 acre "technology zone" south the Boise airport
\- expects Missouri to give them $360 million in tax credits to subsidize a cargo hub at the St. Louis airport.

They are doing this through the use of EB-5 visas. Chinese investors, to the tune of half a million each, entire families will be given green cards valid for life. This is called "investment immigration". They will not be using US workers.

China will using a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals. Could not an invader ask for more?! Are we not being betrayed from within? We need to get rid of the "Red Chicago Mob" in the White House and their minions in the Congress.

Such people as New York Times Thomas Friedman, Mitt Romney, and Janet n

Napolitano Think should staple green cards to foreign students diplomas. Where is the media on this? They should asking questions of candidates related to the following issues:

\- how China is buying its way into America with our money
\- how free trade is cheating coming and going
\- how China is stealing our intellectual property and patents
\- how China has sold us poisonous and defective products
\- how China is building a military machine with US dollars
\- the racket of preferential visas that take American jobs.

We have have stopped our space program while China races ahead. Space is essential for the gathering of information to fight future wars. How do we deal with their massive economic espionage against us? They provide us "hardware Trojans", counterfeit computer components that can cause malfunctions and breakdowns of aircraft, or provide hackers hidden doors for spying.

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn immigrated from Russia many years ago. His main request was that the West, in particular the United States, quit giving them(Russia) "the rope to hang us with!" Are we not giving China and others, even within our country, the shovels to bury us with? As John Adams once said,

"Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this country."

Communism

Communism.. or is it just Liberalism!?

The basic formula is the same:

1) Destroy God + vs We are God
2) Destroy the family + Sleep with us
3) Destroy property rights + Steal it from others
4) Protect criminals = Keep us alive
DESTROY THE COUNTRY!!!

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." (Winston Churchill)

"Most people don't realize that THE KREMLIN HAS ALREADY INVADED AMERICA. The reason most Americans are not conscious of this invasion is due to the fact that it has been going on(like the invasion of the southwest) gradually for 39 years. The Soviet leaders have moved entire divisions of their political army into our country unnoticed by all except a few security-minded citizens. These Red forces are a political army which is civilian in appearance and walk the streets of America indistinguishable from the rest of the population.

Their weapons of war consist of infiltration, disruption, poisonous propaganda, and espionage. They are largely an invisible enemy acting behind fronts and, therefore difficult to pinpoint. Operating as a disciplined and dedicated force they insinuate themselves into various sensitive and key areas of our society." (Archibald Roosevelt, H/R, 'Communist Political Subversion',P. 4).

"THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PRESENT PERIL SHOULD BE PLACED HISTORICALLY, AND OFFICIALLY, AT THE FEET OF THE AMERICAN LIBERALS. It was they who refused to heed the huge mass of evidence collected from Communists, from former Communists, from the minutes of Communist meetings, known official documents and from intelligence sources which the Committee(House un-American Activities Committee) uncovered and made public.

...It was the American Liberals who stood up for the communists when my bill to deport and exclude Communists aliens reached the Senate after passage by the House. ...In the Senate the Liberal Front led by the older La Follette(WI), kept the bill from ever reaching a vote. ... Without exception, year in and year out, the American Liberals have defended, protected, encouraged, and aided the Communists, both in the United states and abroad." (Martin Dies'Story, P. 170-1)

These quotes say it better than I could and more follows to make the point that was made over half a century ago. Back then, a former cabinet member of the Eisenhower Administration, said, "the growing communist infiltration and influence right inside our own continental borders has become alarming. ...learning how our enemies are trying to subvert us is everybody's job."

Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra T. Benson, also said there was three possible methods by which the Communists might take us over:

1) Through a sufficient amount of infiltration and propaganda to disguise Communism as just another political party(Democrat?).
2) By fomenting internal civil war in this country(through racial strife?...in Arizona?), and aiding the communists' side in that war with all necessary military might.
3) A slow insidious infiltration resulting in a takeover without the American people realizing it.(How about the La Raza movement to take back the southwest?)

The general plan of the communists many years ago was to carry out a three-step process in which they have been very successful: 1) take eastern Europe, 2) capture Asia, and 3) encircle the United States. They wanted to infiltrate and takeover nations south of our border. Has this not happened when the Mexican President tells his people to invade the southwest because it's a part of greater Mexico? It is part of the basic communist doctrine to create a territorial dispute in targeted countries.

The following quotes from J Edgar Hoover are even more revealing:

"Who are these enemies of our Republic? They are the crime syndicates, the narcotic peddlers, the labor racketeers, the unscrupulous businessmen, the corrupt politicians, and all others who blatantly defy the laws of the land. THEY ARE THE HATEMONGERS AND THE FALSE LIBERALS who would subvert our Constitution and undermine our democratic process in furtherance of their ends(like getting rid of the electoral college?). They are the communists and other subversive elements who wave FALSE BANNERS OF LEGITIMACY AND PATRIOTISM while relentlessly plotting to destroy our heritage of freedom."

"COMMUNISM,like crime, advances and takes hold because MEN IGNORE GOD. The real danger in communism lies in the fact that it is atheistic and seeks to replace the Supreme Being. Communism is secularism on the march. It is the mortal foe of all the world's religions which acknowledge the existence of God. Either the faith of our fathers will triumph or communism will engulf us. The two cannot live side by side(what has God to do with Mammon?). ...God is truth, COMMUNISTS HATE TRUTH...."

"The Red giant in America is not asleep. For the preservation of our traditional freedoms and for the welfare of our nation, the citizens of America cannot afford to relax the VIGILANCE which is the PRICE OF LIBERTY. THE THREAT of domestic communism within our boundaries IS REAL. Communism can conquer a nation not only through attack but also through attrition--the gradual chipping away of the historic rights and freedoms of the people. If we let our guard down now, we could live to regret our folly for many years."

"...communism is engaged in absolute and total war on the economic system of the United States. It is striving ceaselessly to capture our markets, destroy our trade, and through infiltration and subversion, tie up our industrial development(of nuclear power plants?) at home.

Entirely apart from the unrelenting attack on our economic system, international communism(ICCC-international communist criminal conspiracy) is striving to ISOLATE the United States from all other nations of the world."

"Today, the communists are engaged in a vigorous campaign to divide and weaken America from within. Foremost in this campaign are the Party's efforts to exploit misunderstandings and capitalize upon areas of dissension and unrest whenever they exist. This is especially true in the intense civil rights movement for America's 20 million Negroes and all others engaged in this struggle are a major target for communist propaganda and subversion...." Anyone who doesn't go along with it is called a racist, nazi,or right-winger.

We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not readily recognize the means used to advance them.....No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent....Until the American citizen learns for himself the nature of the present menace, communism will continue to be a deadly danger." A Catholic Nun once called it the ESSENSE OF EVIL; reverse the Ten Commandments and what do you get?

"In the battle for the life of our Nation, to paraphrase one of our great presidents, we must look to those who enter the arena of active struggle; whose faces are stained by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly to overcome temporary obstacles; who, supported by faith, enthusiasm and devotion, assault the enemy stronghold with THE SWORD OF PATRIOTISM." (June 16, 1959)

WE must forge ahead always! Knowledge of the enemy helps develop the wisdom and discernment which are essential if we are to deal with him effectively. We must anticipate his every move and circumvent such moves before he makes them. ....The individual who assumes a cloak of neutrality in the present struggle is neither intellectual or liberal. He cannot be religious. He is not neutral At best, he is the dupe of forces which are wholly evil." (J. Edgar Hoover, Oct. 1957)

Education

Principle #21 from the "5000 Year Leap"states- "strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom"; it provides the basic solution to most education problems. This applied even before the founding of our country. In 1647, the MA legislature passed a law requiring a community of 50 families to set up a free public grammar school to teach the basics and Bible study.

Every township of 100 families was required to set up a secondary school in advanced studies. Local school committees had oversight of the schools, not the federal government... or even the state.

Some studies have shown that students using the famous McGuffey Readers through the eighth grade demonstrated a higher level of skill than our present secondary system or students entering college.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 encouraged the teaching of three important subjects in order for a state to be admitted into the Union. They were 1)religion-the fundamental religious beliefs we are founded upon,the 10 Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule,etc.; 2)morality-a standard of right and wrong; and 3)knowledge-academic studies. Many question whether the current system is even fulfilling the third one. Aren't our nation"s ratings headed downhill?

The Soviet system eliminates the first two; and thanks to their ACLU the same has happened here bringing with it serious moral problems that are blowing up government budgets from the local level to the federal level. Just take a look at the Milwaukee school system.

Do you really want to pay for condoms because 60% have joined the local communist youth league? To understand this statement you need to refer to the sex resolution issue. Thanks to our Governor and legislature, we will be taxed to provide more "commie" sex education, especially in the area of homosexuality.

We need to get rid of the federal DOE and save the carrying charge to overpaid bureaucrats. In 1932, the head of the communist party(Wm Foster) wrote a book(Toward a Soviet America) in which he called for a Department of Education; they wanted religious and patriotic themes to be removed from the classroom. (See the 1986 ACLU letter I wrote under the AFACT heading). .

And with the help of the "great conservative" Newt Gingrich, the DOE bill passed the House with a close vote of 209-206, and Jimmy Carter was able to sign it into law. The Constitution does not authorize a DOE any more than it authorizes a Dept. of Religion or federal sect. That issue was left to the states.

The only ones that can pray in school now are the Muslims, especially at Barron H.S.!? They have their own prayer room. What ever happened to separation of church and state? Apparently, only "religions" that attack our founding principles are allowed.

Why do superintendents(as in Rice Lake) get paid more than than the Governor? Maybe that is an indicator of who is really running our state. When God is removed, educators becomes god,as in Germany and Russia. And when they say they want more money, we must bow down and give it to them!?

The Constitution was written to basically outlaw four basic threats to freedom: force,monopoly,vice,and debauchery of public morals. An example of force would be the mob offering you a deal you can"t refuse, thus eliminating competition. Monopoly does the same thing. Vice refers to crimes and the last is self explanatory.

All these elements exist not only in our education system, but all government social programs. The oligarchy that runs education in the state of Wisconsin is no different than the one that controls education in Moscow. The basic problem in Wisconsin and America is the fact that upwards of 50% of our citizens are allied with the religious, moral, economic, and social objectives of the old Soviet Union.

What are you going to do about it?

From the Eau Claire school district to the UW system, to a congressional seat in Madison, or a US Senate seat; the communist lesbian/homosexual crowd has well infiltrated the state. With a lesbian leading the system, red is a good color for the big UW; it sure wouldn't be the color white in our flag representing moral purity. Nothing has changed since the sixties.

All power is concentrated in the hands of a few. We need to introduce more competition and clean out the present system. It has become nothing more than a mob organization giving us a deal we can't refuse. The original US education system was run by those who represented our religious beliefs and was much more successful. We had far less problems in our society when "religion and morality" were taught.

Josef Stalin said,"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within". It is time for all FREEMEN to ACT! Truly, this is the time to chose.

(See 1963 goals under the AFACT heading)

Flat Money/The Federal Reserve System

The Constitution of the United States requires that the states pay their debts in gold or silver. Since our national government has corrupted our currency we cannot do so. We ceased to be a Federal Government when the 17th Amendment was passed by Congress, changing the election of senators from state legislatures to the general population

The basic questions are: 1) do you have the right to print money backed by nothing? and 2) does the central government have the right to pass on an enumerated power to a private corporation or an entity such as the UN?

When you remove the standard, you can print and loan more than you have and buy votes. What happens if we loan more than we have? Is it a good thing to print money you don't have and buy things you want at the expense of others? Is it right to pass fiat money debt onto your grandchillden?

Fiat money(backed by nothing) almost cost us the hard fought Revolutionary War and the peace afterwards. Without the gold and silver provision in the Constitution, the Framers would not have signed that document of liberty. They were well aware of the problems it caused that we are now living with today.

Now here's the "meat". "Can you handle the truth?!! Lenin said he would force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction. The fifth plank of the communist manifesto calls for the centralization of credit and money in the state. We have it in a corporation, the Federal Reserve System, which is neither federal or reserve.

The real owners are as follows:
1\. Rothchilds of London and Berlin
2\. Israel Moses Seaf of Italy
3\. Kuhn, Loeb and Co. of Germany and New York
4\. Lazares Brothers of Paris
5\. Warburg and Co. of Hamburg, Germany
6\. Lehman Brothers of New York
7\. Goldman, Sachs of New York
8\. Rockefeller Brothers of New York

The FRS profits from government debt. It can cause, through its monetary policies, depression(as it did in 1929), cyclic recessions, ...and even get us into debt building wars. It has more power than the whole Congress...and Congress just gave them more power. What ever happened to the principle that absolute power corrupt absolutely?

The 2nd plank calls for a heavy graduated income tax. Why do we have it? It was needed to pay for the unconstitutional welfare state. Remember, Lenin said that he would force the United States to spend itself in destruction. Our President is now doing so and adding onto what others have done..and it will only get worse.

It violates the principle of equal protection under the law. Every one should pay the same percentage of tax. At the founding of our country,we only needed import,excise, or sales taxes based on use rather than income. How about a Fair Tax or Flat Tax?

You cannot solve money or tax problems with the wrong principles. So why have certain forces within our country given us the 2nd and 5th planks as our laws? You can bet you won't find out in our 10th plank school system!

A plan to take back the FRS and place it under the control of a "board of supervisors" appointed by the Congress was written by famous constitutionalist W. Cleon Skousen and given to President Reagan 30 years ago, but he never acted upon it, nor took it to the people!?(neither did he act on the plan by Dr. Skousen to transform Social Security)

They were to keep interest rates within 3% of GDP or be removed from from the board. This interest would go to the federal government and member state banks, lowering taxes for all. As it stands now the FED gets to steal half a trillion dollars a year from the American taxpayer. Is that enough to buy every politician in the land?

We applaud Ron Paul's effort to audit the FRS(so we can put them in jail), then take it back under Article 13 of the Federal Reserve Act and save the interest. He has been trying for 30 years. Has your congressman supported him...or even informed you? I first ran for the US Senate in 1984 with this as my primary issue.

They have been stealing trillions for decades! The same people that control the FED also control the media, and the education system through grants to colleges. So will you vote for a Federal Reserve puppet candidate? If they aren't, why haven't they been talking about it before and why aren't they talking about it now?

Those same "money lenders" are now promoting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty trying to bypass the Senate...by giving the President a Trade Promotion Authority(TPA) in order to circumvent the Constitution. It would tie us into the EU and thereby require us to pay their debts and go through the Cyprus experience where bank and retirement accounts were confiscated.

You may contact the National Center for Constitutional Studies(nccs.net) for a copy of both their plans for Comprehensive Monetary Reform and Social Security Reform at 208-645-2625 or 1-800-388-4512.(only $2 each)

Vote John Schiess for your next US Congressman in the 7th District and we may put these BANKSTERS out of business!

See MONEY under QUOTES.

Healthcare

Who created you? Who is responsible for your care? Your parents or maybe your grandparents? How about YOU! If your family won't buy it for you,why should I? Where does that right come from?...to make anyone else pay your bill.

Should I take it from someone else? Isn't that called stealing?

The simple answer is an individual account that goes with you from employer to employer that comes out of ....your paycheck! You could voluntarily buy it for a friend. It's always easier to be irresponsible and pass the buck to someone else.

In 1932, the head of the Communist Party, William Foster wrote a book titled,"TOWARD a SOVIET AMERICA". Now you know where the great idea for social "insecurity" came from. And, guess what else?....HEALTHCARE! Obamacare is necessary to the merger of our American socialist medical system with the socialist medical systems of other nations. Free enterprise cannot merge with a socialist system.

The same people who promised you a wonderful retirement now want to give you a wonderful healthcare plan. WHEN WILL YOU EVER LEARN? Socialism never works and never will work. And no it's not far left or progressive either, it's COMMUNISM!

See SOCIALISM quotes under Books and Quotes.

Homosexuality

Where should we look for the solution to this issue? Why not the location our Framers looked for most their answers when founding our Republic?...the Bible. Leviticus 18:22 says, "thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an ABOMINATION." Any "nation under God" has been destroyed for practicing such acts...and other associated behaviors. If we pamper or exhibit too much patience for the weak and degenerate, they become a cancer on the nation.

Even though we have an economic crisis, it is rooted in a more serious moral crisis. Our enemies have long called for the promotion of not only this lifestyle but pornography, promiscuity, and adultery as normal, natural, and healthy! Though some may have more proclivity toward such behavior, no one is born that way without the God given gift of Free Agency. In America, we have the freedom to choose, so the chose is yours..and YOU are accountable.

"Virtue has to be learned and it has to be earned." One of the key functions of government is to prevent the debauchery of public morals. They looked to Blackstone who stated that as long as an individual kept his conduct within the confines of his home, it was his own business; but when it became public knowledge and that example affected society for the worse, it was proper for government to then step in and regulate that behavior. He was ashamed to even discuss it and called it "the infamous crime against nature".(AIM.org)

Blackstone also said any law that violates God"s law is invalid. Pastor Dan Scott of the Christ Church of Nashville says, "Homosexual behavior is a sin that threatens religious freedom and destroys people, families, and nations. It must be resisted."

The founding fathers regarded homosexual sodomy as a crime against nature; it should be outlawed and severely punished. The state of Virginia authorized dismemberment; the laws of other states were even more severe. George Washington even authorized the expulsion from the army of a soldier guilty of sodomy. Thomas Jefferson authored a bill calling for castration. Now we teach it in our schools!?

A former secretary of agriculture said,"If Communism comes to America, it will come in full force....and it will come within". Josef Stalin said," America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within"

"While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external invader."(Samuel Adams) Apparently the Milwaukee School District has already surrendered.

A few decades ago, Larry Kramer, a homosexual playwright said, " we should scare the people. We have to make their lives uncomfortable. We should tie up expressways and block bridges. We should cripple this country, throw bombs, set fires, stop traffic, and surround the White House."

The Nation for Marriage organization sent out the following information: "Thomas Messner of the Heritage Foundation wrote that the supporters of Proposition-8 "have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence",and "gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry".(How communistic of them!")

...Californians who publicly supported marriage were subjected to numerous acts of vandalism. They had bricks thrown through their front windows, car windows smashed, and tires deflated.(Didn't this happen in Milwaukee during the last election!?..done by so called Democrats?)...Name-calling,physical assaults on Proposition 8 supporters, harassment, and even death threats: the list of despicable behaviors goes on and on...(Such tactics are also being used in AZ over their illegal immigration law).

Catholic churches in California were vandalized in sickening ways: a statue of the Virgin Mary was defaced in one, swastikas were scrawled on the walls of another. A "Yes on 8" sign was thrown through the window of a Lutheran pastor's office. Assembly of God and Mormon churches were attacked. An official of the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign said to a Mormon on the Dr. Phil show: "We are going to go after your church every day for the next two years unless and until Prop. 8 is overturned." (Such kind loving people!?)

Decriminalization of what used to be defined as a mental illness has made it possible to organize openly into a powerful lobby calling for the "rights" of pedophiles to adopt. It has become a monster in our midst, and is becoming more threatening, vengeful, and vindictive towards anyone who challenges its outrageous claims.

Researcher and author, Scott Lively, has documented that the Nazi Party began as a private homosexual force. Hollywood has portrayed the same in a movie, I can't remember. He "predicts a severe drop in enlistments and re-enlistments resulting from the entry of open homosexuals into the military, triggering the re-instatement of the DRAFT."

"This would in turn begin a degeneration of the moral and ethical culture of the services as those with the highest personal values would be most likely to leave,being replaced,in many cases,by men whose motivation is to share a male-dominated environment with others of similar sexual proclivities." This subculture would create an "army within an army" that would dominate the services.(AIM)

Kevin Jennings, one of the founders of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network(GLSEN), has been appointed as Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Department of Education to oversee the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools. He is going to provide "factual information" about the history of the "gay rights" movement.

His "mentor and hero"" is the infamous Harry Hay. As reported in Accuracy in Media(AIM), he was a member of the communist party,and a supporter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association(NAMBLA) who believed in the power of the occult. Harry Hay founded the first official gay rights group called the Mattachine Society. He was introduced to the Communist Party by actor Will Geer who played Grandpa on the "Waltons".

Hay said that he found sexual abuse to be beneficial and campaigned for the "rights" of pedophiles. Our Congress has just passed the "hate crimes" bill pushed by the homosexual community. An exclusion against adoption by pedophiles was rejected. Harry Hay developed the idea that homosexuals, like the workers under capitalism, were being oppressed and had to assert their"rights".

He supported Henry Wallace on the Progressive Party ticket for President. That party was dissolved with orders to infiltrated both the democrat and republican parties. Henry Wallace became President Roosevelt"s Vice-President during his last term and Harry worked within the Democrat Party eventually as a member of Jesse Jackson"s rainbow coalition.

Their goal was to elect Jackson as a black activist president. Guess who we got instead!? Our President like his party officially supports gay rights, and wants to put the final nail, not only in the military, but in the coffin of America. Gay men and lesbians until the 1970s were told by mental health professionals that they were diseased and depraved but in May 2008, The California Supreme Court allowed the homosexual community to marry. Is it not time for FREEMEN to ACT?

Illegal Invasion

Who has a right to break into our home and demand money? Our first responsibility is to our family, then OUR community be it local, state, or national. No family budget can survive when they are FORCED to assume responsibility for other families. Does that remind you of a certain "Russian" movie?

Was it "Brothers Kasmirov" or "War and Peace"? Lenin said he would force the United States to spend itself in destruction! We are under a slow invasion from the south much like Europe is from the east. It was called for as much as three decades ago by the ICC through such groups as La Raza and MechA. People such as Bill Gates and the Ford Foundation fund them. The International Criminal Conspiracy is another name for the Communist Internationale.

An American Border Patrol fundraising letter states the following; "Mexico has never accepted the humiliating defeat they suffered in 1848 at the hands of the upstart United States. More than 160 years later, Mexico's elite ruling class form the leadership of a revolutionary group known as RECONQUISTA." Almost 50% 0f all CA births are now Hispanic.

"Even though the Mexican Reconquista movement is the MOST DANGEROUS DOMESTIC THREAT to America's sovereignty, most Americans know nothing about it.This new Mexican-American war will be fought where America is most vulnerable:

~ America's courtrooms will be flooded with expensive lawsuits;
~ Political elections will be decided by falsely registered illegals;
~ Union jobs will go to Mexican illegals with fake identification;
~ Corrupt labor unions will regain the power of their glory years;
~ Businesses will be intimidated into unionizing workers;
~ Illegal aliens will demand and receive amnesty."

America's southwest will be transformed into ATZLAN or North Mexico and be just as corrupt and impoverished. Our country's left-wing media, left-wing Congress, and left-wing President want the Reconquistas to win. Obama has made it clear that he wants to remove our borders and is in support of the NAU.

The reason that our government will not stop illegal immigration regardless of administration is the UN's goal of an EU style NAU or North American Union combining both Mexico and Canada with our country. What would that do for your retirement or healthcare plans? Do you want to pay for their infrastructure and balance their budget?

This betrayal of our sovereignty began with the Clinton administration with the help of Newt Gingrich. They took the first step into it...NAFTA. George Bush has been pushing for FTAA and SPP(Security & Prosperty Partnership) and Pres. Obama will continue the process.

To learn more google North American Union.

Borders, Language, and Culture! (See quotes below)

Reconquista leaders:

Businessman Xavier Hermosillo, "We're taking California back. House by house. Block by block. People ought to wake up and smell the refried beans."

Univision's news anchor Jorge Ramos, "Anglos assure us that Mexicans are a menace to American values and cultural integrity. What they don't understand is that Latinos are a fundamental element of the United States and we will soon be the majority in this country."

Jose Gutierrez,professor at UT-Arlington "We have got to eliminate the GRINGO. And what I mean is,if worse comes worst, we have got to KILL HIM."

Augustin Cebada,CA City Councilman & Brown Berets de Aztlan "We're here to show the white Anglo Saxon that we claim this land as ours. If anyone's going to be deported, it's going to be you! Go back to Boston! Go back to the Plymouth Rock. Get out!"

Carlos Fuentes Mexican author "Hispano-Americans are Spanish speakers,Indo-Europeans, and Afro-Americans. With all of this,we win. The ones who lose are the Anglos;isolated in their racist English-speaking,white purity."

Vincente Fox Former President "We are Mexicans that live in OUR territories and Mexi-cans that live in the Southwest of the United States. In reality,we are working to construct a nation."

Former President, Ernesto Zedillo "I have proudly proclaimed that the Mexican nation ex-tends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders."

Barack Obama U.S. President "As President, I will work with sister cities across the border to enhance cross-border partnerships(SSP) in law enforcement,health care, and water usage."

I have a great plan for the "chicken GOP". (1) NO AMNESTY for anyone!!!, (2) You are going home sooner or later. We will find you some day and (3) cut off all your thieving benefits,(4) declare war on Mexico and close the border until we have it under control,(5) start a massive deportation program(yes we can!), (6) set up immigration centers in each country and let them compete to come here. We do not need federal programs that import hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn countries and then discourage them from assimilation. 1,600,000 green cards have been given to predominantly Moslem countries. The cowardice of our representatives in the face of the enemy is not a pretty sight. In fact, it might even be considered TREASON!

Law & Order

There are three things needed to insure a peaceful community: 1) a system of restitution to the victim, 2) a system of banishment, and 3) the death penalty. In short, a system of shape up, ship out, or die. This ia a great three-step program.

As the old line in pioneer movies goes,"get off my land or I will shoot you".Now there's a real restaining order. But...lawyers won't make money that way!

Heaven forbid that I should refer to the same book that our country"s Founders referred to most for ideas in structuring our government. But I, like them, looked to the Israelite system in the Bible. Lets look at those ideas again.

1. 1) a System of Restitution: Why should fines go to the government? Why not to the victim? The criminal was required to restore even four-fold the damages that he caused. If he would not do that, he could be banished from the community...under penalty of death if the matter was serious enough. Where does the idea of restitution exist in our criminal system today?
2. 2) a System of Banishment: The criminal was not allowed back into the community until he was willing to make restitution. Why should we pay the penalty of warehousing them?
3. 3) a Death Penalty: This issue has already been addressed under my list of issues. I like Soloman"s idea. He told a traitor he could live as long as he stayed in his home. The penalty was in his own hands, and of course, he blew it. When a person takes a life, he needs to make restitution with his own.

Those who cause problems, should not be getting social programs! We use the death penalty on our foreign enemies when they attack us, so why not against our domestic enemies who attack us? It doesn't always need to be used, but the fact that it is there solves a multitude of problems. When I taught, i found the use of the paddle had the same effect.

When Ronald Reagan was Governor of California, he made the same mistake he made as President. He appointed two of the wrong justices to the Supreme Court. One of them wrote the opinion against the death penalty and CA lost that tool for a while. Gov. Reagan like Gov. Schwartzneggeer started releasing criminals from prison and raising the crime rate dramatically.

We don't need that to happen in our state. We need to treat human beings like human being and animals like animals, not the other way around. Those who threaten the rights,property, and life of others need to come under strict discipline. Wisconsin needs a death penalty!

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## Ballot access requirements[edit]

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. Senate candidates in Arizona in the 2020 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Arizona, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. Senate candidates, 2020

State  |  Office  |  Party  |  Signatures required  |  Signature formula  |  Filing fee  |  Filing fee formula  |  Filing deadline  |  Source
Arizona | U.S. Senate | Democratic | 6,325 | 0.5% of qualified voters | N/A | N/A | 4/6/2020 | Source
Arizona | U.S. Senate | Libertarian | 3,335 | 0.5% of qualified voters | N/A | N/A | 4/6/2020 | Source
Arizona | U.S. Senate | Republican | 6,663 | 0.5% of qualified voters | N/A | N/A | 4/6/2020 | Source
Arizona | U.S. Senate | Unaffiliated | 39,039 | 3% of qualified voters | N/A | N/A | 4/6/2020 | Source

## Election history[edit]

### 2018[edit]

General election

##### General election for U.S. Senate Arizona

Kyrsten Sinema defeated Martha McSally and Angela Green in the general election for U.S. Senate Arizona on November 6, 2018.

Candidate

Votes

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| Kyrsten Sinema (D)  |

50.0

| 1,191,100

| Martha McSally (R)  |

47.6

| 1,135,200

| Angela Green (G)  |

2.4

| 57,442
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0.0

| 566

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There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

| Total votes: 2,384,308
(100.00% precincts reporting)

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### 2016[edit]

U.S. Senate, Arizona General Election, 2016

Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes
| Republican  | John McCain Incumbent | 53.7% | 1,359,267
| Democratic  |  Ann Kirkpatrick  | 40.7% | 1,031,245
| Green  |  Gary Swing  | 5.5% | 138,634
| N/A  |  Write-in  | 0.1% | 1,584
Total Votes | 2,530,730
Source: Arizona Secretary of State

### 2012[edit]

U.S. Senate, Arizona General Election, 2012

Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes
| Republican  | Jeff Flake | 49.2% | 1,104,457
| Democratic  |  Richard Carmona  | 46.2% | 1,036,542
| Libertarian  |  Marc Victor  | 4.6% | 102,109
| Independent  |  Steven Watts (Write-in)  | 0% | 290
| Independent  |  Don Manspeaker (Write-in)  | 0% | 24
Total Votes | 2,243,422
Source: Arizona Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"

## Special elections to the 116th Congress[edit]

See also: Special elections to the 116th United States Congress (2019-2020)

Eight special elections for the U.S. House of Representatives occurred:

* California's 25th Congressional District
* Georgia's 5th Congressional District
* Maryland's 7th Congressional District
* New York's 27th Congressional District
* North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District
* North Carolina's 9th Congressional District
* Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District
* Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District

Two special election for the U.S. Senate occurred:

* U.S. Senate in Arizona
* U.S. Senate in Georgia

Three of these races resulted in partisan flips. The special elections for U.S. Senate in Arizona and Georgia resulted in Democratic gains, and the special election for California's 25th Congressional District resulted in a Republican gain.

Special elections to Congress occur when a legislator resigns, dies, or is removed from office. Depending on the specific state laws governing vacancies, a state can either hold an election within the same calendar year or wait until the next regularly scheduled election.

### Results[edit]

#### House[edit]

Results of special elections to the 116th Congress (House)

Race  |  Election date  |  Incumbent  |  Winner  |  Election MOV  |  Previous election MOV  |  2016 Presidential election MOV[70]
Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District |  May 21, 2019  |  Tom Marino |  Fred Keller |  R+36  |  R+32  |  R+37
North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District |  September 10, 2019  |  Walter Jones[71] |  Greg Murphy |  R+24  |  R+100  |  R+24
North Carolina's 9th Congressional District[72] |  September 10, 2019  |  Robert Pittenger |  Dan Bishop |  R+2  |  R+16  |  R+11
Maryland's 7th Congressional District |  April 28, 2020  |  Elijah Cummings |  Kweisi Mfume |  D+49  |  D+55  |  D+55
California's 25th Congressional District |  May 12, 2020  |  Katie Hill |  Mike Garcia |  R+12  |  D+9  |  D+7
Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District |  May 12, 2020  |  Sean Duffy |  Tom Tiffany |  R+14  |  R+21  |  R+20
New York's 27th Congressional District |  June 23, 2020  |  Chris Collins |  Christopher Jacobs |  R+5  |  R+0.3  |  R+25
Georgia's 5th Congressional District |  December 1, 2020  |  John Lewis |  Kwanza Hall |  D+8[73] |  D+100  |  D+73

#### Senate[edit]

Results of special elections to the 116th Congress (Senate)

Race  |  Election date  |  Incumbent  |  Winner  |  Election MOV  |  Previous election MOV  |  2016 Presidential election MOV
U.S. Senate in Arizona |  November 3, 2020  |  Martha McSally[74] |  Mark Kelly |  D+3  |  D+2  |  R+4
U.S. Senate in Georgia |  January 5, 2021 (runoff)  |  Kelly Loeffler[75] |  Raphael Warnock |  D+2.1 |  R+14  |  R+5

### Historical data[edit]

#### Special elections, 2013-2020[edit]

Fifty special elections to the United States Congress were held during the 113th through 116th Congresses. During that time, special elections were called for 16 seats vacated by Democrats and 34 vacated by Republicans.

The table below details how many congressional seats changed parties as the result of a special election between 2013 and 2020. The numbers on the left side of the table reflect how many vacant seats were originally held by each party, while the numbers on the right side of the table show how many vacant seats each party won in special elections.

Congressional special election vacancies and results, 113th Congress to 116th Congress

Congress  |  Total elections held  |  Vacancies before elections  |  Seats held after elections  |  Net change
Democrats  |  Republicans  |  Democrats  |  Republicans
116th Congress |  10  |  3  |  7  |  4  |  6  |  +1D, -1R
115th Congress |  17  |  4  |  13  |  8  |  9  |  +4 D, -4 R
114th Congress |  7  |  2  |  5  |  2  |  5  |  No change
113th Congress |  16  |  7  |  9  |  7  |  9  |  No change
Averages |  13  |  4  |  7  |  5  |  7  |  N/A

U.S. Senate special election partisan change from special elections, 113th Congress to 116th Congress

Party  |  As of special election  |  After special election
Democrats |  4  |  7
Republicans |  6  |  3
Total |  10  |  10
U.S. House special election partisan change from special elections, 113th Congress to 116th Congress

Party  |  As of special election  |  After special election
Democrats |  12  |  14
Republicans |  28  |  26
Total |  40  |  40

To see a list of all the Congressional special elections referenced in the table above, click [show] at the right.

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Race  |  Election date  |  Incumbent  |  Winner  |  Election MOV  |  Previous election MOV
Illinois' 2nd Congressional District |  April 9, 2013  |  Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. |  Robin Kelly |  D+49  |  D+40
South Carolina's 1st Congressional District |  May 7, 2013  |  Tim Scott |  Mark Sanford |  R+9  |  R+26
Missouri's 8th Congressional District |  June 4, 2013  |  Jo Ann Emerson |  Jason Smith |  R+40  |  R+47
U.S. Senate in Massachusetts |  June 25, 2013  |  John Kerry |  Ed Markey |  D+10  |  D+34
U.S. Senate in New Jersey |  October 16, 2013  |  Frank Lautenberg |  Cory Booker |  D+11  |  D+14
Louisiana's 5th Congressional District |  November 16, 2013  |  Rodney Alexander |  Vance McAllister |  R+19[76] |  R+63
Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District |  December 10, 2013  |  Ed Markey |  Katherine Clark |  D+34  |  D+23
Alabama's 1st Congressional District |  December 17, 2013  |  Jo Bonner |  Bradley Byrne |  R+41  |  R+98[77]
Florida's 13th Congressional District |  March 11, 2014  |  C. W. Bill Young |  David Jolly |  R+2  |  R+15
Florida's 19th Congressional District |  June 24, 2014  |  Trey Radel |  Curt Clawson |  R+38  |  R+26
U.S. Senate in Hawaii |  November 4, 2014  |  Daniel Inouye |  Brian Schatz |  D+40  |  D+25
U.S. Senate in South Carolina |  November 4, 2014  |  Jim DeMint |  Tim Scott |  R+24  |  R+34
North Carolina's 12th Congressional District |  November 4, 2014  |  Melvin Watt |  Alma Adams |  D+51  |  D+59
U.S. Senate in Oklahoma |  November 4, 2014  |  Tom Coburn |  James Lankford |  R+39  |  R+45
Virginia's 7th Congressional District |  November 4, 2014  |  Eric Cantor |  David Brat |  R+24  |  R+17
New Jersey's 1st Congressional District |  November 4, 2014  |  Rob Andrews |  Donald Norcross |  D+18  |  D+38
New York's 11th Congressional District |  May 5, 2015  |  Michael Grimm |  Daniel Donovan |  R+19  |  R+12
Mississippi's 1st Congressional District |  May 12, 2015  |  Alan Nunnelee |  Trent Kelly |  R+40  |  R+39
Illinois' 18th Congressional District |  September 10, 2015  |  Aaron Schock |  Darin LaHood |  R+38  |  R+49
Ohio's 8th Congressional District |  June 7, 2016  |  John Boehner |  Warren Davidson |  R+56  |  R+40
Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District |  November 8, 2016  |  Chaka Fattah |  Dwight Evans |  D+81  |  D+75
Hawaii's 1st Congressional District |  November 8, 2016  |  Mark Takai |  Colleen Hanabusa |  D+43  |  D+4
Kentucky's 1st Congressional District |  November 8, 2016  |  Ed Whitfield |  James Comer Jr. |  R+44  |  R+46
Kansas' 4th Congressional District |  April 11, 2017  |  Mike Pompeo |  Ron Estes |  R+6  |  R+31
Montana's At-Large Congressional District |  May 25, 2017  |  Ryan Zinke |  Greg Gianforte |  R+6  |  R+15
California's 34th Congressional District |  June 6, 2017  |  Xavier Becerra |  Jimmy Gomez |  D+18[78] |  D+54[78]
Georgia's 6th Congressional District |  June 20, 2017  |  Tom Price |  Karen Handel |  R+4  |  R+24
South Carolina's 5th Congressional District |  June 20, 2017  |  Mick Mulvaney |  Ralph Norman |  R+3  |  R+20
Utah's 3rd Congressional District |  November 7, 2017  |  Jason Chaffetz |  John Curtis |  R+32  |  R+47
U.S. Senate in Alabama |  December 12, 2017  |  Jeff Sessions |  Doug Jones |  D+2  |  R+28
Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District |  March 13, 2018  |  Tim Murphy |  Conor Lamb |  D+0[79] |  R+100
Arizona's 8th Congressional District |  April 24, 2018  |  Trent Franks |  Debbie Lesko |  R+6  |  R+38
Texas' 27th Congressional District |  June 30, 2018  |  Blake Farenthold |  Michael Cloud |  R+23  |  R+24
Ohio's 12th Congressional District |  August 7, 2018  |  Patrick Tiberi |  Troy Balderson |  R+1  |  R+40
Michigan's 13th Congressional District |  November 6, 2018  |  John Conyers Jr. |  Brenda Jones | D+78  |  D+61
U.S. Senate in Minnesota |  November 6, 2018  |  Al Franken |  Tina Smith |  D+11  |  D+10
U.S. Senate in Mississippi |  November 6, 2018  |  Thad Cochran |  Cindy Hyde-Smith |  R+8  |  R+22
New York's 25th Congressional District |  November 6, 2018  |  Louise Slaughter |  Joseph Morelle |  D+16  |  D+12
Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District |  November 6, 2018  |  Patrick Meehan |  Mary Gay Scanlon |  D+6  |  R+19
Pennsylvania's 15th Congressional District |  November 6, 2018  |  Charlie Dent |  Susan Wild |  D+0[80] |  R+20
Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District |  May 21, 2019  |  Tom Marino |  Fred Keller |  R+36  |  R+32
North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District |  September 10, 2019  |  Walter Jones |  Greg Murphy |  R+24  |  R+100
North Carolina's 9th Congressional District |  September 10, 2019  |  None[81] |  Dan Bishop |  R+2  |  N/A
Maryland's 7th Congressional District |  April 28, 2020  |  Elijah Cummings |  Kweisi Mfume |  D+49  |  D+55
California's 25th Congressional District |  May 12, 2020  |  Katie Hill |  Mike Garcia |  R+10  |  D+9
Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District |  May 12, 2020  |  Sean Duffy |  Tom Tiffany |  R+14  |  R+22
New York's 27th Congressional District |  June 23, 2020  |  Chris Collins |  Christopher Jacobs |  R+5  |  R+0[82]
U.S. Senate in Arizona |  November 3, 2020  |  John McCain |  Mark Kelly |  D+2  |  R+13

#### Special elections, 1986-2012[edit]

The table below presents the results of special elections to Congress from 1986 to 2012. Contact Ballotpedia at editor@ballotpedia.org for access to earlier data.

Results of special elections to Congress (1986-2012)

Election cycle  |  Total special elections  |  U.S. House elections  |  Seats changing partisan control  |  U.S. Senate elections  |  Seats changing partisan control
2011-2012 | 11 | 11 | None | None | None
2009-2010 | 15 | 10 | 3 (2 Democratic gains; 1 Republican gain) | 5 | 2 (all Republican gains)
2007-2008 | 14 | 12 | 3 (2 Republican gains; 1 Democratic gain) | 2 | None
2005-2006 | 12 | 12 | 3 (all Democratic gains) | None | None
2003-2004 | 6 | 6 | None | None | None
2001-2002 | 6 | 5 | 2 (all Democratic gains) | 1 | 1 (Republican gain)
1999-2000 | 9 | 8 | 1 (Republican gain) | 1 | 1 (Democratic gain)
1997-1998 | 3 | 3 | None | None | None
1995-1996 | 11 | 9 | 1 (Republican gain) | 2 | 1 (Democratic gain)
1993-1994 | 9 | 6 | 1 (Republican gain) | 3 | 3 (all Republican gains)
1991-1992 | 10 | 7 | 2 (all Republican gains) | 3 | 1 (Democratic gain)
1989-1990 | 10 | 8 | 1 (Democratic gain) | 2 | None
1987-1988 | 12 | 12 | 3 (2 Democratic gains; 1 Republican gain) | None | None
1985-1986 | 8 | 8 | 1 (Republican gain) | None | None
Total | 136 | 117 | 21 (11 Democratic gains; 10 Republican gains) | 19 | 9 (6 Republican gains; 3 Democratic gains)

## State profile[edit]

See also: Arizona and Arizona elections, 2019

### Partisan data[edit]

The information in this section was current as of May 7, 2019

Presidential voting pattern

* Arizona voted Republican in all five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016.

Congressional delegation

* Following the 2018 elections, one U.S. Senator from Arizona was a Democrat and one was a Republican.
* Arizona had five Democratic and four Republican U.S. Representatives.

State executives

* Democrats held three of Arizona's 15 state executive offices and Republicans held nine. Elections for the other offices are nonpartisan.
* Arizona's governor was Republican Doug Ducey.

State legislature

* Republicans controlled the Arizona State Senate with a 17-13 majority.
* Republicans controlled the Arizona House of Representatives with a 31-29 majority.

Arizona Party Control: 1992-2021
No Democratic trifectas • Twenty-one years of Republican trifectas
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Arizona quick stats

* Became a state in 1912
* 48th state admitted to the United States
* Arizona was the last contiguous state admitted to the union.
* Members of the Arizona State Senate: 30
* Members of the Arizona House of Representatives: 60
* U.S. senators: 2
* U.S. representatives: 9

|  More Arizona coverage on Ballotpedia:

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Demographic data for Arizona

| Arizona| U.S.
Total population:| 6,817,565| 316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):| 113,594| 3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:| 78.4%| 73.6%
Black/African American:| 4.2%| 12.6%
Asian:| 3%| 5.1%
Native American:| 4.4%| 0.8%
Pacific Islander:| 0.2%| 0.2%
Two or more:| 3.2%| 3%
Hispanic/Latino:| 30.3%| 17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:| 86%| 86.7%
College graduation rate:| 27.5%| 29.8%
Income
Median household income:| $50,255| $53,889
Persons below poverty level:| 21.2%| 11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015)
Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Arizona.

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**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

## See also[edit]

* United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)
* United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)
* John McCain
* Martha McSally
* Jon Kyl
* United States Senate elections, 2020

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ AZCentral, "Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat," December 18, 2018
2. ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Arizona - Senate," accessed September 22, 2020
3. ↑ DSCC, "DSCC Endorses Mark Kelly in Arizona Senate Campaign," April 19, 2020
4. ↑ Federal Election Commission, "NRSC," accessed September 22, 2020
5. ↑ Candidate Connection surveys completed before September 26, 2019, were not used to generate candidate profiles. In battleground primaries, Ballotpedia based its selection of noteworthy candidates on polling, fundraising, and noteworthy endorsements. In battleground general elections, all major party candidates and any other candidates with the potential to impact the outcome of the race were included.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Data Orbital, "AZ Statewide Likely Voter Survey," accessed Nov. 2, 2020
7. ↑ Data for Progress, "Data for Progress," accessed Nov. 2, 2020
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Emerson College, "Super Poll Sunday: Toss-ups in Nevada and Arizona," accessed Nov. 2, 2020
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The New York Times, "AZ102620 Crosstabs," accessed Nov. 2, 2020
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 CNN, "Overview," Oct. 31, 2020
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Rasmussen Reports, "Arizona Senate: Kelly (D) 48%, McSally (R) 43%," Oct. 29, 2020
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Scribd, "Arizona (October 28, 2020)," Oct. 28, 2020
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ipsos, "Public Poll Findings and Methodology," Oct. 28, 2020
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Patinkin Research Strategies, "Biden and Kelly ahead by 7-points in Arizona," Oct. 26, 2020
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 OH Predictive Insights, "Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) Toplines and Crosstabs," Oct. 27, 2020
16. ↑ Susquehanna Polling & Research, "Top Line Survey Results," Oct. 23, 2020
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Basswood Research, "Arizona: Policy Priorities and the Election – October Update," Oct. 22, 2020
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Ipsos, "Public Poll Findings and Methodology," Oct. 21, 2020
19. ↑ PoliticalIQ, "AZ Senate Race: Kelly (D) 46% McSally (R) 39%," Oct. 21, 2020
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Rasmussen Reports, "Arizona Senate: Kelly (D) 46%, McSally (R) 44%," Oct. 21, 2020
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Data Orbital, "AZ Statewide Likely Voter Survey," Oct. 20, 2020
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 YouGov, "CBS News Battleground Tracker," Oct. 18, 2020
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Monmouth University Polling Institute, "Dem Gains in Key Races," Oct. 15, 2020
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Public Opinion Pulse Toplines and Crosstabs (1).pdf?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=97443604&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YKdQGdcjhrShEJfsBc7JTFdlklT1RodoeG-nMmCGHWRDUFwNlhUCpC0Qyjh4DQGGGyPyUZaS7ikUHptXoT6cVk8q7kfO-4hRg1rAyzImJPZbVBeA&utm_content=97443604&utm_source=hs_email OH Predictive Insights, "Arizona Public Opinion Pulse Toplines and Crosstabs," Oct. 14, 2020
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 The Trafalgar Group, "Arizona Statewide U.S. Senate Survey," accessed Oct. 12, 2020
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Ipsos, "Public Poll Findings and Methodology," Oct. 7, 2020
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Data Orbital, "BREAKING: In AZ, U.S. Senate Race Tightens and President Trump Down 4.5%," Oct. 7, 2020
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 HighGround, "State of Arizona 2020 Likely Voter Survey," accessed Oct. 9, 2020
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 High Ground Public Affairs Consultants, "Proposition 208 Tax Hike Leading as Ballots Drop in Arizona," accessed Oct. 9, 2020
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Data For Progress, "Memo," Oct. 1, 2020
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Susquehanna Polling and Research, "Arizona Presidential Battleground Poll, Top Line Report and Questionnaire," Sept. 29, 2020
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Redfield & Wilton Strategies, "2020 Presidential Election Research Six Swing States," Sept. 22, 2020
33. ↑ OH Predictive Insights, "Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) Senate Toplines & Crosstabs," accessed Sept. 16, 2020
34. ↑ Gravis Marketing, "Arizona Polling," accessed Sept. 16, 2020
35. ↑ AARP, "AARP Poll: Over Half of Older Arizona Voters Fear Getting Coronavirus," Sept. 15, 2020
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Redfield & Wilton Strategies, "2020 Presidential Election Research Six Swing States," Sept. 7, 2020
37. ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
38. ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
39. ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
40. ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Arizona Daily Star, "2020 Star Opinion: Mark Kelly for U.S. Senate," Oct. 7, 2020
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 today's News-Herald, "Our View: McSally deserves to win in this Senate campaign," Oct. 12, 2020
43. ↑ The Hill, "Trump endorses McSally in Arizona Senate race," June 25, 2019
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Facebook, "Martha McSally," Oct. 30, 2020
45. ↑ Medium, "Kamala Harris Endorsements," May 9, 2019
46. ↑ ABC 15, "Gov. Ducey: I endorsed Sen. McSally when I appointed her and that endorsement stands," Aug. 29, 2019
47. ↑ Medium, "Second Wave of 2020 Endorsements," September 25, 2020
48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 Facebook, "Martha McSally," Oct. 25, 2020
49. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `sqr23`
50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 Facebook, "Univision Arizona," Oct. 22, 2020
51. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `ipsos14`
52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 YouTube, "2020 Senate Debate: Martha McSally vs Mark Kelly," Oct. 6, 2020
53. ↑ Siena College, "The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Poll: Arizona," October 3, 2020
54. ↑ Suffolk University, "SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ARIZONA POLL SHOWS BIDEN LEADING TRUMP BY 4 POINTS," October 2, 2020
55. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `obama`
56. ↑ Change Research/CNBC, "States of Play: Battleground & National Likely Voter Surveys on the Mail-in Election, COVID-19 and the Supreme Court," September 23, 2020
57. ↑ Washington Post/ABC News, "Sept. 15-20, 2020, Florida and Arizona Washington Post-ABC News polls," September 23, 2020
58. ↑ Reuters/Ipsos, "PUBLIC POLL FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGY," September 23, 2020
59. ↑ The New York Times/Siena College Research Institute, "Full Poll," September 18, 2020
60. ↑ Monmouth University, "ARIZONA: DEMS AHEAD FOR PREZ, SENATE," September 17, 2020
61. ↑ YouGov/CBS News, "CBS News Battleground Tracker – September 9-11, 2020," September 13, 2020
62. ↑ 62.0 62.1 62.2 62.3 62.4 62.5 62.6 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
63. ↑ Martha McSally's 2020 campaign website, “Issues,” accessed Oct. 21, 2020
64. ↑ Mark Kelly's 2020 campaign website, “Issues,” accessed Sept. 16, 2020
65. ↑ Mohammad Arif's 2020 campaign website, “Home,” accessed Sept. 16, 2020
66. ↑ Matthew Dorchester's 2020 campaign website, “Home,” accessed Oct. 7, 2020
67. ↑ Nicholas Glenn's 2020 campaign website, “My Agenda,” accessed Oct. 7, 2020
68. ↑ Perry Kapadia's 2020 campaign website, “What Arizona Needs,” accessed Oct. 7, 2020
69. ↑ John Schiess' 2020 campaign website, "Issues," accessed Oct. 7, 2020
70. ↑ Daily Kos, "2008, 2012, & 2016 Presidential Election Results by District," accessed February 1, 2019
71. ↑ Jones died on February 10, 2019.
72. ↑ The 9th District was not filled in the 2018 elections due to allegations of electoral fraud. In February 2019, the North Carolina Board of Elections called for a new election to fill the vacant seat.
73. ↑ This election was between two Democrats
74. ↑ In December 2018, McSally was appointed to fill the Senate seat previously held by John McCain (R), who passed away in August 2018. Jon Kyl (R) was first appointed to the seat and held it from September 2018 to December 2018. The 2020 special election decided who would serve out the rest of the six-year term McCain was elected to in 2016.
75. ↑ Isakson announced his resignation effective December 31, 2019. The 2020 special election decided who would serve out the rest of the six-year term Isakson was elected to in 2016.
76. ↑ Both general election candidates were Republicans.
77. ↑ This race was unopposed.
78. ↑ 78.0 78.1 Both general election candidates were Democrats.
79. ↑ Lamb won by a margin of 0.4 percentage points.
80. ↑ Wild won by a margin of 0.2 percentage points.
81. ↑ The state Board of Elections declined to certify the results of the 2018 election following allegations of absentee ballot fraud.
82. ↑ Collins won by 0.3 percentage points.

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Arizona's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mark Kelly (D)

Kyrsten Sinema (D)

Representatives

District 1

Tom O'Halleran (D)

District 2

Ann Kirkpatrick (D)

District 3

Raul Grijalva (D)

District 4

Paul Gosar (R)

District 5

Andy Biggs (R)

District 6

David Schweikert (R)

District 7

Ruben Gallego (D)

District 8

Debbie Lesko (R)

District 9

Greg Stanton (D)

Democratic Party (7)

Republican Party (4)