Battleground State

Arizona

Senate: GOP Majority

13D

17R

House: GOP Majority

27D

33R

Arizona is a top DLCC Battleground State in 2026.

Arizona is one of our top opportunities to turn a state blue in this once-in-a-generation election. We are aiming to flip both chambers in the state legislature for the first time since the 1960s.

Arizona is home to some of the nation’s most extreme MAGA Republicans who have focused on undermining our democracy and chasing conspiracy theories rather than addressing the issues facing Arizonans. We have an opportunity to let Democrats drive the state’s agenda for the first time since the Civil Rights era by electing legislators who believe that government should help, not harm, the people it represents.

After chipping away at GOP power, Democrats are now poised to flip both chambers. DLCC is supporting Target Races featuring the Democratic candidates running in the most competitive districts that will determine which party controls Arizona next year.

Meet the DLCC’s Arizona Target Race Candidates

The DLCC is targeting 17 crucial races in Arizona in order to seize the opportunity to flip the Arizona Legislature from red to blue and establish a new Democratic trifecta – adding to the firewall in the states against the chaos from the Trump administration.

DLCC Target Races

Arizona LD-02 (S)

Amelia Gallitano

Arizona LD-23 (H)

Emilia Cortez

Arizona LD-17 (H)

Hollace "Holly" Lyon

Arizona LD-13 (H)

Jacob Weinberg

Arizona LD-16 (H)

Julia Romero Gusse

Arizona LD-4 (H)

Tammy Caputi

Arizona LD-9 (H)

Lorena Austin

Arizona LD-17 (H)

Kevin Volk

Arizona LD-13 (H)

Racquel "Rockee" Armstrong

Arizona LD-09 (H)

Jacob Martinez

Arizona LD-4 (H)

Karen Gresham

Arizona LD-2 (H)

Stephanie Simacek

Arizona LD-09 (S)

Kiana Sears

Arizona LD-04 (S)

Aaron Lieberman

Arizona LD-13 (S)

Kristie O’Brien

Arizona LD-17 (S)

Edgar Soto

Arizona LD-23 (S)

Brian Fernandez

Incoming AZ House Speaker Rep. Oscar De Los Santos has plans for a robust Democratic agenda after 60 years in the minority.

“We have sixty years of pent-up ideas that we have not been able to move,” he said. “There’s a bunch of legislation that we’ve got ready to go.”

Rep. Oscar De Los Santos (HD-11)

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News in Arizona

Press Releases | September 15, 2020

Six Month Update: Republicans’ Failed COVID-19 Response

GOP legislators have done everything in their power to actively make this crisis worse

Press Releases | September 9, 2020

State of the States: QAnon Believers Are Dangerously Close to Power in Legislatures

There’s a lot going on, so every Wednesday, the DLCC is sending a roundup of the state legislative stories you might have missed. It's September 9th and here is the state of the states.

Press Releases | September 9, 2020

RSLC Admits Democrats Are on Offense

In a press call, Republican State Leadership Committee President Austin Chambers noted Democrats’ path to legislative majorities

Press Releases | September 8, 2020

ICYMI: Arizona Republic, “Can Democrats take over the Arizona House and Senate? These 10 races will decide”

WASHINGTON — Democrats are just seats away from flipping the Arizona legislature red to blue for the first time in over half a century. Democrats only need two seats in the House and three seats in the Senate to win the majority.