For years, the Left has been working tirelessly to flip Arizona blue. Armed with a secret network of tax-advantaged funds, political nonprofits, and union dollars, their aim has been to turn our beloved, freedom-loving state into the next Colorado or California. In fact, many groups on the Left waged high stakes to flip Republicans’ paper-thin control of the state legislature in 2024.
And how did that turn out? A historic landslide victory for President Trump while the Left actually lost ground in Arizona’s legislature. Apparently funneling millions of dollars to liberal causes doesn’t make up for bad ideas.
Now, with the 2026 midterm election a little over nine months away, the latest voter registration numbers are in, and they show an encouraging trend. Republicans have expanded their registration advantage over Democrats to 7.64%—the largest lead in state history—while Democrats continue their free fall in party registration.
Even more impressive is that these gains are not isolated to a few particular areas of our state. Every single county in Arizona has become MORE Republican since the 2024 election. That’s right. In the counties where Democrats have larger voter registration numbers than Republicans, the gap has closed. And in counties where Republicans have larger voter registration numbers than Democrats, the gap has widened. In fact, the gap between registered Republicans and Democrats in Maricopa County has increased by more than half a percent in just the past year.
Yet perhaps the most surprising trend behind this growing Republican advantage is that while Republicans have been able to register a lot of new voters, the same cannot be said for the Democrats. As of today, Democrats have fewer registered voters in Arizona than they had six years ago! And this occurred at a time when Arizona’s population grew by nearly 500,000 residents. That’s the price you pay when your party continues to push unpopular ideas like the Green New Scam all while featuring a scandal-plagued governor who vetoes $1.1 billion in tax relief.
All of this is good news for Republicans who enjoy a voter registration gap that’s now 3.5% larger than the last midterm election in 2022 when that advantage stood at 4.06%. But here’s the thing. These voter registration numbers are moot if Republicans fail to show up in November.
While there has been a lot of discussion about election malfeasance and fraud in 2022, one of the most overlooked issues has been that Republicans grossly underperformed in turnout. In fact, Republican turnout in 2022 was lower than it was in the 2018 midterms.
That can’t happen this year.
Right now, Arizona has an attorney general in Kris Mayes who has suggested that people can shoot ICE officers because of stand your ground laws. We have a secretary of state in Adrian Fontes who continues to prove that the only thing he’s good at is losing in court. And we have a governor under active criminal investigation for a massive pay-to-play scheme with our tax dollars who wants to end school choice, increase government spending, veto bills that lower taxes, and more. Since she took office, she’s led Arizona from 4th in the nation in job growth all the way down to 47th. She’s vetoed parental rights bills, 2nd Amendment bills, water legislation, and more. And her fiscal mismanagement has turned a $2.5 billion surplus into a $1.4 billion deficit. In the meantime, Republicans continue to fight for educational freedom, address affordability, and put money back into the pockets of the people.
That’s the right side of history, but it won’t be if we don’t show up.
The goal for 2026 should be a presidential election level turnout, which would all but ensure Republican victories up and down the ticket. And if that happens, we can send Mayes, Hobbs, and Fontes packing for good. Maybe they can find a nice, overpriced home in California.
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