By Things do not appear to be going too well for Kamala Harris in the state of Arizona, a crucial swing state. NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard reported Wednesday that in Arizona, a key battleground state, none of the early voters his team spoke to mentioned casting their ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Hillyard noted during “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that Republicans have adopted voting by mail and have begun returning their ballots, along with voting early, at a two-to-one rate compared to Democrats. This is a shift from 2020, when Democrats had the lead in early voting.
Things got interesting, however, when Hillyard began speaking to those waiting in line for early voting at polling stations in Mohave County.
The Daily Caller detailed the scene.
“We went to a couple early voting locations, and we saw lengthy lines during the lunch hour. Thirty people waiting in line, and we should note, we did not find a single person who audibly would tell us that they voted for Kamala Harris,” Hillyard said. “These were Trump supporters getting out to vote early in the all-important Mohave County.”
One supporter of Republican nominee Donald Trump named Jim Coddington said that voters are making a “special effort” to vote this year and that it is important for those to come out early. Shelley Schwarz, a voter in Mohave County, said she voted early for the first time ever because Trump encouraged voters to do so.
“He keeps saying it, and I’ve been thinking about it, and so here I am,” Schwarz said.
Another voter said he did not vote in 2020 but voted early in 2024 because he is “horrified by the state of the country,” Hillyard said. Three other voters he spoke to said they moved to Arizona from blue states to support Trump.
Arizona and its vital 11 Electoral Votes appear to be on the verge of slipping away from Harris, writes MSNBC.
After decades as a perennial red state, consistently voting for Republicans, Arizona turned purple in 2018, electing Kyrsten Sinema as its first Democratic U.S. senator in 30 years. Then in 2020, the state elected Democrat Mark Kelly to the Senate and went for Joe Biden over Trump by just over 10,000 votes — the first time a majority of Arizonans voted for a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1996 (Harry Truman was the last Democrat to win Arizona before Clinton, back in 1948). Most recently, in 2022, Democrats took the majority of statewide offices, including governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
But a New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College poll conducted this month showed the former president up by a full 6 percentage points (with a margin of error of 4 points). Is the state swinging back to deep red? Probably not, but it’s complicated.
Arizona’s Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters, dropping from 1.38 million in 2020 to 1.19 million in 2024. Republicans dropped, too, from 1.5 million to 1.45 million in 2024, but the much larger drop in Democratic voters is glaring, especially in a state now led by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
Arizona’s unaffiliated voters have always been a large voting bloc, but that group is growing. In Maricopa County — the most populous county in the state and the fourth-largest in the country — Democrats voters fell from 814,000 to 692,000 in 2024. Biden won Republican-heavy Maricopa County in 2020, but Republicans’ voter advantage is much larger today.”
Trump winning Arizona would give him a much easier path to victory in the coming weeks, explained The Washington Post earlier in the week.
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