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-- for our battleground series now. is there a political -- particular election that signaled that arizona was a battleground state? guest: it was a long progression of the proportion of -- and what we notice is a greater change and the margins of victory for republican so we have been seeing republicans win in america -- arizona. partial -- by smaller origins. it was in 2020 that voted most for president biden where people realized where amazon had -- arizona had become purple.

host: republicans have the advantage of 1 -- more than 1.4 million registered republicans who under -- and under 1.34 democrats and another 1.4 million other -- who are not registered in who is in the other character -- category? guest: republicans have always had a numerical advantage in arizona. brewpubs are at the top and democrats and independents are vying for second place and what that means, i know it is not necessarily people who prefer parties but they are just registering as independent. that could be because they don't prefer their parties but the vast majority of independents have a party preference and they tend to support one party but they may not a surly want to

identify with the image of the party and they may not want to support the entire platform so that is a large chunk of arizonans who are more mysterious -- and as a result, there is an appeal towards moderates. critically among democratic candidates, it is a sick -- successful strategy to try to appeal to the middle of the war -- the road. host: in terms of demographic trends, what should our viewers know about arizona? guest: it is growing. particularly in phoenix where it is the most rapidly growing cities in the last decade and the small suburbs have been booming. arizona is urbanizing where we are seeing a population decline in the rural and republican counties and we are seeing the

biggest increases in a county in phoenix and a county in tucson. we are seeing a lot of migration to arizona internationally as well as within the united states and less domestic migration and we are seeing a growing proportion who identifies hispanic. all of these things are helping arizona switch from a reliably red state to purple. host: battleground arizona is our topic. it is our -- a weeklong series but if you want to focus on arizona, democrats can call in (202) 748-8002 --(202) 748-8001 --(202) 748-8000.

our guest is samara klar. a professor. folks are calling in and for our viewers to be savvy viewers of the election results, when they start coming in next tuesday, which is a no about the state of arizona -- what should they know about the state of arizona? how do you watch on the net -- election night? >> i am preparing myself before we have official results because our races are close. when you think about the senatorial and senate race, there are two races that are close and not outside the margin of error. it could be a couple of days before we know who wins this thing. arizonans rely on mail-in

voting. in the state of arizona, those belts can begin to be processed before election day and it means that some of the earlier towers will fail -- favor the democrats happily and we will see later numbers, people who are at the polls, and they will tilt probably toward republicans. host: how has the county process -- counting process change since 2020? guest: 2020 led to election denial in arizona. we have had thorough audits. at this point, the evidence has shown that the election was legitimate and there was no fraud. in 2022, there will be added attention of the integrity of the election but arizona officials have done all their -- they can to show every vote

counts. host: what time do" --polls close. guest: i think it is 7:00 or 9:00? we have been voting by mail and this is the last week that we can finish mail in voting. there will be people showing up on election day and that is a minority of voters in arizona and they will be largely -- casually more republican voters and that tends to be the case that is not as interested in mail-in voting but both parties are supporting full -- voting by mail. host: let's go to ray for republicans. good morning. caller: i have some questions about arizona. one lady, not going to debate

midflight, do you think this is really damaging to the democratic party? guest: that is a question that has been asked so much in arizona as democrats are looking back over the campaign. where she has done well and where she hasn't. one of the biggest talking points is that katie hobbs refused to debate kari lake. katie hobbs argued that kari lake petaled misinformation -- petaled misinformation. she doesn't want to dignify those statements. -- statements with that debate. she hasn't been quite as out there as kari lake so when people hear the news, you are not hearing much about her and

it is possible that doing a debate in getting out there raised her profile but on the other hand, abc is playing it smart. maybe this is something we can look back on and decide the missteps were -- but the missteps were. -- what the missteps were. it is troubling to boaters who want to hear both sides -- boaters who want to hear both sides --voters who want to hear both sides. host: you gave me enough time to get the pole opening and closing times and the polls open in arizona at 6 a.m. and close to 7 p.m. central time in arizona. you can look for arizona poster closed at 9 p.m. eastern time -- polls to close at 9 p.m. eastern time. harry, good morning.

are you with us this morning? caller: yes. host: what is your question? caller: a county has decided to hand count their ballots. that is due to two republican county supervisors. how do you think that reflects the rest of arizona? guest: there are some counties that have decided to do a hand cot of the belt --alts. i take it, a precautionary measure and each county is trying to figure out how they can assure voters that their votes will count and there are no fraud issues. hand counting ballots raises their own issues. it comes down to potential user error and there is no full proof way to do it but most of arizona will not behind counting ballots.

there are some counties that are trying to institute that as a alternative method to ensure that voters are -- that the election is free of fraud. host: the issue of roe v. wade is an issue the democrats have focused on in this election. individual state laws, the law of the land of that issue. what is the law of abortion on arizona and how have you seen this impact the election cycle? guest: the laws have been dramatic. when roe v. wade was first over the cone -- overturned, they reduced 816 week ban of abortion --a 16 week ban of abortion. there was a decision -- to return it to a pre-territorial law which was before arizona joined the union, which banned

abortion at six weeks. that band was challenge and is currently terribly -- temporarily cost. arizonans are short -- are not sure when the band will be --ban will be resumed. democrats have been discussing abortion a lot more and that a strategic. the vast majority of democrats don't support the ban. small portion of republicans also so -- don't support it. whether it will be important enough to motivating -- motivate people to vote, that will be an individual response. we do know that the ban is not well supported and we see hobbs

will talk more about this issue then lake will. host: of the cans are focusing on the issue of border security -- republicans are votes kissing -- focusing on the issue aborting security -- border security. guest: i would say that my impression of the 2022 midterms is that the border has taking -- taken a backseat to issues like economy and inflation which has taken a grip on voters. the border has been important but tickly how -- that both parties are concerned with the bolder -- border but they had to appeal to a population that is more supporter -- support of immigration the national. a poll shows that arizonan

republicans are more supportive for a path to civilization -- citizenship. most republicans and a polling -- believe -- -- in polling believe of the strength of arizona and support citizenship but there is concern that they don't want to let crime in the border. host: it is our battleground series and we are focusing on the grand canyon state of arizona. cindy is next in california. line for republicans. guest: -- caller: i have a question. i have noticed the democrats are using social security and medicare and with this information, they are saying that republicans want to end

social security and they want to end medicare and that is a falsehood. the washington post reported that it is a pinocchio. rick scott said he wants to look into different proposals but not to end it. could you remark on this? guest: the issues of social security and medicare will be important in states like arizona where we have a older population, and these are issues that resonate and what we have seen is that republicans are losing a little bit of stronghold over older voters. in 2020, we saw voters over the age of 65 voting for the democratic party at the highest rates that we have seen. the democrats are trying to

appeal to older voters.