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Opinion: New state House speaker is a welcome surprise

Fresh off their thrashing of Democrats, state House Republicans picked their new leader on Tuesday. Three things are worth nothing. Rep. Steve...

13.11.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Kari Lake loses – again. Even Trump voters chose Gallego.

The state of Arizona just proved once and for all that there is only one Donald Trump. And his name isn’t Kari Lake. After nearly four years of...

12.11.2024 6

USA TODAY

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Opinion: Hobbs faces an even more Republican Legislature

Democrats spent $10 million on their effort to flip the Arizona Legislature. Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs exercised her political clout — such as it...

12.11.2024 6

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Kari Lake loses again. Will the GOP ever learn?

The state of Arizona just proved once and for all that there is only one Donald Trump. And his name isn’t Kari Lake. After nearly four years of...

12.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Mayes to push on with fake electors prosecution

Donald Trump may be headed back to the White House but a few of his key aides and Arizona allies will be headed back to the courthouse. Attorney...

12.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Democrats should thank Kyrsten Sinema for saving the Senate

So, I imagine that Democrats’ thank-you notes are in the mail to outgoing U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for their...

09.11.2024 10

USA TODAY

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Opinion: Early voting should mean voting early

It’s Friday morning. Do you know who your new U.S. senator is, Arizona? Of course you don’t. This, after all, is Arizona where you can go online...

08.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Dems should be sending Sinema a thank-you card

So, I imagine that Democrats’ thank-you notes are in the mail to outgoing U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin for their refusal to end the...

08.11.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Plan to flip the Legislature looks like a flop

With each passing hour, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ plan to flip the Arizona Legislature is looking more like a colossal flop. It’s early days...

08.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: How could a solidly GOP district elect 2 Dems?

As we wait to see who will control the Arizona Senate — Democratic Sen. Christine Marsh is hanging on by the tips of her fingernails — it’s...

07.11.2024 9

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Lake hasn't lost yet, but some cry 'fraud!'

The election in Arizona isn’t over. The votes still are being counted, yet heeeere we go. The conspiracy crowd and the professional grifters who...

07.11.2024 20

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Arizona Democrats, where are you?

Keep an eye on Democrats in these final hours of Election Day. If they don’t show up at the polls, it could be game over for them. Republicans...

06.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: 3 bad ballot propositions go down

While most key Arizona races remain too close to call early Wednesday, the state’s voters sent a strong message to the Republicans who run the...

06.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Caution, Arizona election ahead. Expect delays

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05.11.2024 3

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Trump blows his John McCain moment

Donald Trump over the weekend had his John McCain moment. Or what could have been his John McCain moment. You will recall that a gazillion years ago,...

04.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Newly arrested candidate wants you to trust him

The first thing you will learn if you go to the campaign website of the Republican hoping to become Navajo County’s recorder is that he loves God. ...

30.10.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Kari Lake's CNN interview was a train wreck

Kari Lake left her signature sledgehammer at home during her Monday night interview on CNN. Instead, she brought a shovel and proceeded to deepen her...

30.10.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: No wonder partisans dislike Proposition 140

Here is how you can tell that Proposition 140, the Make Elections Fair Arizona Act, is a great idea. The Arizona Republican Party opposes it. So does...

29.10.2024 20

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Gosar helps Russia spread lies to help Trump

On the eve of America’s high-stakes presidential election, Vladimir Putin and his Russian disinformation corps are getting a helping hand from one...

26.10.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: We dodged the big one with Tempe office shooter

It appears we’ve dodged the big one. This time, anyway. Police this week arrested the nut suspected of having repeatedly shot up a Democratic Party...

26.10.2024 30

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Why it takes 10-13 days to count all our votes

The election conspiracy crowd and assorted professional grifters are revving their engines over Maricopa County’s announcement on Tuesday that...

24.10.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: New poll shows why Kari Lake is sunk

23.10.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Where are you, Democrats? Few are voting early

Alarm bells aren’t yet ringing wildly over at Arizona’s Democratic HQ. But they certainly should be tuning up. In a battleground state where the...

23.10.2024 9

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: County official carried MAGA's torch, got burned

A Cochise County sucker — er, I mean, supervisor — pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal activity related to her tumble down the stolen election...

22.10.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: No wonder Arizona's election will have snipers

Armed guards at the gate and metal detectors at the door. Snipers on the roof. Drones in the sky. Welcome to the front line of one of the nation’s...

22.10.2024 30

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Let's debunk Elon Musk's AZ election conspiracy

Elon Musk may be stumping for Trump in Pennsylvania, but he’s still throwing in with the Arizona election conspiracy crowd. Musk, during a town hall...

20.10.2024 20

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Gallego's divorce file blows up in Lake's face

All year long, Kari Lake has hinted that Ruben Gallego is using the courts to cover up something dark and disgusting in his divorce from Phoenix Mayor...

18.10.2024 30

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Bad news for Kari Lake. She's lost the lawyers

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17.10.2024 20

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: This candidate is a train wreck for Democrats

Suddenly, Arizona Democrats have a train wreck on their hands. There is Gov. Katie Hobbs, urging voters to elect a legislative candidate who could be...

17.10.2024 9

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: GOP wants to confuse you with Proposition 133

Of all the sneaky things on the ballot in Arizona this year, perhaps nothing is sneakier than the campaign to protect partisan primaries. The...

16.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: 7 races to decide who controls the Legislature

One of the most important elections in Arizona this year has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It’s not who we send to the U.S. Senate or whether we...

15.10.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: School vouchers are still failing poor students

“These kids are trapped in failing public schools. It’s time to set these families free.” — Gov. Doug Ducey, June 2022, while signing into...

15.10.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Kari Lake finally scores a win in court

Kari Lake may have lost this week’s debate, but she scored an important win in the courts … possibly her first ever. “What is Ruben Gallego...

13.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Attack dog is still a bad look for Kari Lake

Republicans were over the moon about Kari Lake’s performance during Wednesday’s debate, with Lake herself declaring her “clear victory.”...

11.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: County official STILL says election was rigged

Well, well, well. After hiring an independent auditor to spend weeks analyzing what any rational person already knew, Pinal County has determined that...

11.10.2024 8

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Questions for tonight's Lake-Gallego debate

Grab your flak jackets, Arizona. The long-awaited firefight between Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego is upon us. As showdowns go, tonight’s Citizens...

09.10.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: How to know lawmakers are terrified of you

With early voting getting under way this week, I took a meander through the propositions on this year’s ballot and, well … wow. Arizona’s...

08.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Bad news on the border for Trump and Lake

Disastrous news for Donald Trump, Kari Lake and the rest of the “hide your pets and your daughters, the immigrants are coming” crowd. Illegal...

08.10.2024 40

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Lawsuit sets up 218,000 voters for harassment.

This column was updated with new information. A Trump-aligned group is suing to get the names of those 218,000 Arizona voters who may not have proved...

07.10.2024 9

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Lake puts on a masterclass in how to lose an election

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05.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Hard-right GOP senator is suddenly ... going Green?

With just six days until the highly anticipated debate between Kari Lake-Ruben Gallego, the leader of the Arizona Legislature’s hard-right crowd is...

04.10.2024 8

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Giuliani's latest conspiracy theory shot down

Will the (imagined) conspiracies never end? Rudy Giuliani apparently suspects the fix was in with the state grand jury that indicted him in...

03.10.2024 20

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Abortion stance says it all about Kari Lake

Suddenly, Kari Lake trusts Arizona voters to decide whether abortion should be legal. “The lies about my stance on abortion are outrageous,” she...

03.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: 218,000 questions about Arizona's elections

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02.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Leaked call makes Gov. Katie Hobbs look bad

A governor, an attorney general and a secretary of state walk into a bar … OK, that’s not quite right, but they did walk into a potential...

30.09.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Latest poll numbers show Kari Lake is D.O.N.E.

Just in case you think Arizona’s race for the U.S. Senate isn’t yet over, a new poll shows Republican Mark Robinson down 11 points in his race for...

27.09.2024 30

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: County official takes 'sore loser' to extremes

A Republican county official and proud member of the stolen election set has come up with a creative new way to try to make money off his recent...

26.09.2024 3

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Opinion: Sinema's right. This is no way to protect women

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — remember her? — rose from the (political) dead on Tuesday to trash Kamala Harris’ call to scrap the filibuster in...

26.09.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

OPINION: AZ GOP leaves Kari Lake in the locker room

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24.09.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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OPINION: Parents hoard your money while schools starve

A new study ranks Arizona 50th in its investment in public schools. Meanwhile, another study released this week found that hundreds of millions of...

23.09.2024 20

Arizona Republic

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