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Hamadeh prevails in GOP primary in Arizona 8

July 31, 2024 7:17 pmAugust 19, 2024 1:18 pm

Former prosecutor Abe Hamadeh has defeated Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma and venture capitalist Blake Masters, as well as former Congressman Trent Franks and State Senator Anthony Kern to be the Republican nomination for the hotly contested 8th Congressional District...

CD8 Candidates Out in Force on Memorial Day Weekend

May 27, 2024 2:58 amJune 17, 2024 10:32 am

Politics isn’t glamorous. Despite the campaign jets and network buys associated with presidential campaigns, candidates running for state offices or Congress mostly have to get out there in person and earn votes one at a time. That means small rooms...

Rough Ride in Somalia for Trent Franks Oil Company

April 2, 2024 5:19 pmApril 17, 2024 8:39 am

Over decades of covering politics, one axiom has remained inviolable. If a candidate in a contested race does something questionable, his opponents will stumble upon it before even the most dogged journalists. Arizona Globe has been covering the race for...

Internal Poll Shows Hamadeh Sitting on 23-Point Lead

December 21, 2023 7:16 pmNovember 21, 2024 12:45 pm

The Hamadeh for Congress campaign commissioned an internal poll that it shared yesterday with Politico. Campaigns don’t share this kind of thing unless it portends good news, and this one certainly rang cherries for the campaign of the candidate who...

QAnon Shaman to Run for Lesko Congressional Seat

November 12, 2023 11:21 amJune 17, 2024 10:36 am

Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon Shaman, filed paperwork on Thursday, October 9, 2023, to throw his buffalo-horn hat in the ring for Debbie Lesko’s soon-to-be-vacated congressional seat in CD8. You may remember Chansley as the half-naked, tattooed, and...

SCOOP: Globe Gets First Look at CD8 Poll Showing Hamadeh Up On Masters

November 9, 2023 3:15 pmNovember 21, 2024 12:54 pm

The Arizona Globe got its hands on a survey conducted by the PAC supporting Abraham Hamadeh for Congress, and it includes several tantalizing bits of info regarding this hotly contested race. The seat unexpectedly opened two weeks ago when Congresswoman...