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If Maricopa County Sours on Trump, So Will Suburbs Everywhere
The GOP’s pitch hasn’t changed, but the suburbanites have.
Residential Scottdale in Maricopa County, Ariz.
Photographer: Cassidy Araiza for Bloomberg Businessweek
When Sean Bowie first ran for an Arizona state Senate seat in 2016, his odds didn’t look great. The 32-year-old Democrat was running in a suburban Phoenix district that was entirely red: The two state House members and one senator representing the 18th legislative district, in the East Valley suburbs where Bowie grew up, were all Republicans. No Democrat had ever been elected to the state Senate from the district.