Chapter 3: The Southwest

The Wilderness

News, Politics

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Are the Sunbelt’s suburbs key to victory in November? We talk to Romney-Clinton voters in Arizona and follow a candidate who’s trying to flip her changing district. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thewilderness.

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0:00.0	If you can hear me clap once, you can hear me clap twice.
0:11.4	Come have a seat.
0:14.2	So for those of you who don't know me, I'm Christine Marsh.
0:17.9	I'm running for State Senate in LD28.
0:24.2	I'm running to move the state forward.
0:28.2	And we are on the precipice of being able to do that.
0:31.8	Everybody thinks we live in this incredibly red, right-wing state because of the people
0:38.4	who are in power and we don't.
0:41.9	It is far more purple than anybody would actually realize.
0:49.0	Christine Marsh, an award-winning public school teacher, is running for the Arizona State
0:54.0	Senate in Maricopa County.
0:56.7	This is Christine's second run for office.
0:59.3	As one of the thousands of first-time candidates in 2018, she lost her race for this same seat
1:04.8	by only 267 votes, a margin that's just one sign of how competitive Arizona has become.
1:12.4	Now Christine is back.
1:14.4	Not just because she's a badass teacher who refuses to give up, but because she's running
1:18.4	in suburban Phoenix, a place that's experiencing the same kind of political and demographic change
1:24.1	is suburbs all across America.
1:26.9	Change that's given Democrats quite a bit of hope.
1:29.4	The suburbs are in revolt.
1:31.6	Around Philadelphia, the party lost county seat state held since the Civil War.
1:35.2	Just in cinema.
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