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The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years?

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The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years?

Francisco Heredia, national field director at Mi Familia Vota, says Donald Trump has been a motivator for more Latinos to register to vote. (David Jolkovski/For The Washington Post)

By Philip Rucker June 18

PHOENIX If there is one place where the dramas and subplots of Campaign 2016 collide, it is across the sprawling and scorching desert state of Arizona.

Here lives Donald Trumps restive base of white voters unsettled by the countrys social transformation and fired up to dismantle Washingtons power structure. Here also lies the Democrats sleeping giant an estimated 350,000 Latinos who are not registered to vote but who could mobilize against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee over his incendiary rhetoric.

Then there are the politicians. One senator, Jeff Flake ®, is a vocal Trump critic sounding the alarm about an electoral wipeout. The other, John McCain ®, ­alternates awkwardly between his maverick persona and a Trump apologist as he navigates an unexpectedly difficult reelection race. Also on the ballot is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Trump backer whose long crusade against undocumented immigrants makes him a lightning rod.

This leaves the Democrats who have withered away as the state took a hard-right turn in the Obama era sensing their best chance in two decades to turn Arizona and its 11 electoral votes blue. They think that Trump, who campaigned in Phoenix on Saturday, is energizing a new generation of Latino voters who havent participated in elections before.

Everything that needs to happen on the ground is happening, said Fred DuVal, a longtime Democratic power broker here.

The content available on a site dedicated to bringing folks to America should not be promoting racial discord, euro-supremacy, discrimination based on religion , exclusion of groups from immigration based on where they were born, disenfranchisement of voters rights based on how they might vote.

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