Harris leans on ‘McCain Republicans’ to close the deal in Arizona

Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.

PHOENIX — Kamala Harris is staking her hopes of vanquishing Donald Trump in the pivotal state of Arizona by leaning on a familiar group of voters: moderate Republicans with an affinity for the late Sen. John McCain. Concentrated in the suburbs of Phoenix, those voters were decisive in 2020 in delivering the state for Joe Biden, the first Democrat in a quarter-century to carry Arizona in a presidential race.

In 2018 they helped elect Sinema, a former Green Party organizer who rebranded herself as a centrist. Like Harris today, Sinema faced an opponent who sought to heavily attack her past positions and a GOP apparatus that painted her as a socialist. “Kyrsten Sinema rewrote the playbook for how to win an election in Arizona,” Giles said.

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