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Headline: Brookings, 1/2/2025
Reuben Gallego’s Arizona Senate win was perhaps the most impressive of any Democrat in a 2024 battleground state. Gallego’s vote total outpaced the Arizona vote totals of the Democratic presidential nominees in both 2020 and 2024. He received 93,475 votes more than Kamala Harris in 2024 and even 4,192 votes more than Joe Biden did when he carried Arizona in 2020. That enabled Gallego to defeat his election-denying Republican opponent Kari Lake by 80,574 votes (2.4 points). Like the other Democratic senatorial battleground victors, Gallego benefitted from both a substantial falloff among Trump voters and ticket splitting. Only 90.1% of Arizona Trump voters cast a ballot for Kari Lake. In addition, Gallego had an 84,662 net vote advantage among presidential/senatorial ticket splitters. Together, these more than accounted for Gallego’s margin over his GOP opponent. As a result, the Democratic candidate who attended more rodeos, Mexican wrestling matches, and UFC fights than even Donald Trump did in 2024, will be sworn in as the junior senator from Arizona this week. [emphasis added]
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