It’s a question that needs to be answered.
AZ is going to go blue in the not too distant future thanks to immigration. McCain may be the last GOP Senator they elect. Sheriff Joe, famous for being tough on illegals, was voted out of office in 2016 in favor of a liberal Democrat.
You have got to wonder what has been going in on the minds of AZ Republicans over the last 25 years. They were clearly and plainly in the path of the reconquista. Many were refugees from the immigration invasion in California. You would think self preservation would have slapped some sense into these people.
It just defies logic and common sense. McCain is a carpetbagging opportunist and backstabber, certainly not a conservative by any measure.
“AZ is going to go blue in the not too distant future thanks to immigration...”
Maybe, maybe not. Part of it depends on whether Trump is able to get the Illegals out of there - and that will slow things down. Next is to have Hispanics learn English...after that they vote close to mainstream America.
In 2014, every statewide candidate, in the now-Texas Lt. Governor (Dan Patrick), who sounded like Trump when talking illegal immigration, got 40% to 45% of the Hispanic vote, with all of the Republican candidates winning by around 20 points. And that was when the Dems really thought they had a chance of at least making Texas competitive, if not flipping it. The keys are to get rid of the Illegals, slow down legal immigration from the Third World, and Americanize Hispanics...at that point, as was the case in Texas 2 years ago, they are very little help to the Democrats.