Arizona
Biden to make historic visit in Arizona as Democrats worry about bleeding support – Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden will visit the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on Friday as Democrats make a push to keep the Native vote in their court.
The visit marks his first to a Native community since becoming president. He is expected to discuss his administration’s achievements with tribal communities.
“The President will discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s record of delivering for Tribal communities, including keeping his promise to make this historic visit to Indian Country — his first as President,” the White House said in a statement.
Biden is expected to travel to Phoenix on Thursday and stay in the area overnight. Friday morning, Biden will visit the Gila River Indian Community for the speech. The community is largely bordered by Phoenix and Chandler. The president will fly from Phoenix to Wilmington, Delaware, later on Friday to spend the weekend there.
His visit to the community comes less than two weeks before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), her running mate, visited the Gila River Indian Community this month.
Democrats in Arizona are trying to increase voter turnout in the state’s many tribal communities. There are over 300,000 Native Americans living in Arizona. In the Navajo Nation, the state’s largest tribal community, with 67,000 eligible voters, Biden is estimated to have 60% to 90% of the vote, according to Vox. Most precincts covering the Tohono O’odham Nation, which overlaps with Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties, voted above 90% for Biden, according to a precinct map analysis by ABC15 Arizona done in 2020.
Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis said the tribal vote could make a difference in the election next month.
“The whole country is focused on the blue wall, but I want to remind everyone that there is also a tribal wall of voters that is made up of large tribal populations in five of the swing states. Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Michigan all have substantial tribal populations,” Lewis said when Walz visited the community earlier in October.
“The tribal vote has never been more important,” he continued.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is running for Senate in the state, has said he wants to visit all 22 tribal communities in the state. He has visited 20 so far.
Gallego recently embarked on an eight-hour hike into the basin of the Grand Canyon to visit the most remote tribal community in the continental United States, the Havasupai. The only way in or out of the area is by mule, helicopter, or on foot.
“This type of outreach is the kind of thing that matters,” Gallego told NBC 12 News on the hike. “Especially if you want to govern.”
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The 500-member tribe has inhabited this land in the canyon for more than 800 years, according to anthropologists. Just 152 people in Supai, Arizona, registered to vote in 2020, and 62 cast a ballot in the last presidential race, according to the Coconino County Recorder’s Office. Biden won the village with 57 votes, and former President Donald Trump received five votes.
“They deserve to be heard,” Gallego said.
Last night was the seventh consecutive game where the Diamondbacks were held to six hits or fewer. That ties a franchise record, last done in April 2022, and previously in August 2011. The team’s .477 OPS over that time is actually lower than either streak, though due to the efforts of the pitching staff, Arizona are actually 3-4 during the current run. They went 2-5 in 2022, and 1-6 in 2011. There hasn’t been a longer streak in the majors since the Angels went nine in April last year. In the National League, the Pirates went eight in June 2023. And in case you are wondering, the last team to reach a double-digit streak of games with 6 or fewer hits each time? The 1968 Astros reached 11, the year before the mound was lowered.
Let’s hope the D-backs render that moot and the offense comes to life a bit. The three runs added in garbage time last night, because one of the Rangers’ relievers couldn’t find the strike-zone, certainly padded Arizona’s resume. But they were more because of walks than hits. I’ve no doubt the team will hit better. They have batted .152 over the past week. It’s the second lowest in franchise history for a seven-game span. The only worse was April 7-15, 2022 when Arizona hit a remarkable .135, going 28-for-208 in that span. They actually scored three more runs than the current streak, mostly because they had twice as many home-runs (6-3).
Superintendent Tom Horne speaks at 2026 State of Education address
Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne spoke about controversial topics like DEI and ESAs at the State of Education address to the Legislature on Jan. 20, 2026.
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Democrats Brett Newby and Teresa Leyba Ruiz are set to make the argument to voters that they’re the best candidates to serve as Arizona’s top education official for the next four years.
The Arizona Republic will be streaming the Democratic debate for the Superintendent of Public Instruction race in partnership with the Arizona Media Association. The debate starts at 6 p.m. on May 13.
The office is currently held by Tom Horne, who will on May 14 face off in an Arizona Media Association debate against fellow Republican candidate Kimberly Yee, who currently serves as state treasurer.
Newby has worked as a behavioral analyst and professor, according to his campaign. He received a master’s degree in special education. His campaign has hinged on issues like downsizing the state’s controversial Empowerment Scholarship Program, retaining teachers and hiring more school counselors.
Ruiz attended Roosevelt Elementary School District and Phoenix Union High School District as a child before earning her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. She worked as a teacher at the middle and high school level before becoming president of Glendale Community College.
Like Newby, her campaign has also focused on the ESA program. She has also focused on advocating for more funding for public schools and supporting both rural and urban school districts. Ruiz has also spoken publicly about the teacher retention crisis as part of her campaign.
The last trip through the rotation for the Diamondbacks has been really good:
By that 5-game rolling average game score, it’s the best we’ve seen since a run around the All Star Break in 2022:
If we restrict to 5-game stretches with 5 different starters, it’s the best since September 2019:
So yeah, it’s been a while since we’ve had it this good. But this is still a far cry from the best in Diamondbacks history — the current stretch is only tied for 58th all-time. Here’s the best ever:
The good news is that there’s still quite a lot of room for Zac Gallen to improve on his last start, which had a Game Score of only 47. Doing so would give us an even better 5-game average. A score of better than 60 would surpass the 2022 streak; 69 or better would surpass 2018. Although it would take a career-best-tying 89 (reached against the Cubs on September 8, 2023) for him to pull the overall average into a tie for the franchise record. But any improvement on his last start would bring the rolling average up in the franchise rankings.
All records queried here are courtesy of Retrosheet.
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