https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-p...SKBN1EY1Z3
This is not good news for the GOP btw. I think that Flake's seat now looks like a real lean to the Dems now. And we can guarantee high Latino turnout as well.
This could flip a Senate seat (or two), the Governor's mansion, and 2 Congressional seats. Bonus points for it being next to another tough Senate defense race in a state with lots of Latino voters. By the way, Arpaio got tossed out of office in a nominally GOP county by the voters by 13% points. He ran 9 points behind Trump. There are many Republican voters that don't like him. He has an especially big problem with business class Republicans and also with Mormons, who represent 10% of the GOP electorate in Arizona.
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And Arpaio represents a existential threat to minorities. He's been convicted of racist police policies and for refusing to obey the courts.
BTW, Trump won Arizona by 4.1%, getting less than 50%. He won Alabama by 28%.
No one is celebrating this development more than the DSCC, Kyrsten Sinema, and the Democrats running for Governor in Arizona. Every GOP candidate is going to be asked to endorse Arpaio. If they say no, they'll get punished by the GOP primary voters. If they say yes, they're opening themselves up to the backlash in the general.
If Arpaio is the nominee, the GOP loses.
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Now all we need is for Chris McDaniel to be the GOP nominee in the Mississippi Senate race. That way, we will have pretty much maximized the matchup race.
How do you turn a marginal winning electoral cycle into a rout? By having better turnout and by having better matchups. The GOP is shooting themselves in the foot again.
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This is even worse than Roy Moore, politically. In Arizona, unlike Alabama, there are lots of other officials that could get tossed out of office because of this.