Former Educator, State Legislator, and Arizona Congressional District (Six) Democratic Nominee Kirsten Engel hopes the people of Tucson and Southern Arizona have seen enough of current House Representative Juan Ciscomani and his MAGA-Anti Reproductive Freedom-Anti Social Justice votes in Congress.
That is why she announced her intentions to again seek the Democratic Nomination for CD Six in 2024.
Remembering that she lost by one of the smallest margins (less than 5,000 votes) in the 2022 elections, Engel is confident that, after Mr. Ciscomani has developed a track record of voting against the people’s interests, she will prevail in the Presidential Election year of 2024 and help the Democrats regain their majority in the House of Representatives.
In making her announcement, the former State Legislator said:
“…When I see a problem, I get to work. Too many Arizonans are struggling to get by. Let’s face it. For so many of us, the American Dream is further and further out of reach. But Juan Ciscomani and the Republicans in Congress have the wrong priorities: rolling back access to abortion; kicking the can down the road on our climate-driven water crisis; ignoring parents’ pleas to address gun violence; and putting corporate profits ahead of working families and small businesses. We can’t afford to let them play games with our children’s future, our Social Security, or our Medicare. Together, we came damned close last time…Let’s finish the job.”
I'm going to focus on common-sense solutions that actually help folks back in Arizona.
My campaign lost by one of the smallest margins in the country last year. Every bit of support we get now will make a difference.
— Kirsten Engel (@EngelForArizona) April 12, 2023
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AZCentral had Nov. 9, 2022 subscriber-only story, “GOP defections, Democratic spending among the Arizona midterm takeaways that could echo”, about lots of national Dem support for Greg Stanton’s shoo-in campaign and Tom O’Halleran’s quixotic one, vs very little for Kirsten Engel running in a competitive district that often had close races. Some Dems may have felt that she was too qualified.
I was looking at Juan Ciscomani’s campaign website. His issues were straight from the GOP playbook (border, cartels, anti-abortion, anti-gun control, don’t teach CRT and blah blah blah). Nothing substantive, no ideas, no details, mostly written at the level of bumper stickers. I don’t know how he won.
He’s on track to accomplish nothing in 2023 and 2024 just like everyone else in the GOP controlled House of Representatives.
Even so, if the national Democrats don’t make a commitment to get this seat back, Ciscomani will win again.
Wouldn’t it be nice if “journalists” would interview Repugs asking “Is there anything you can say about the issues that aren’t talking points provided by the GOP?” Any ensuing silence would be golden.
She better run a better campaign than last time. I’m a registered Democrat yet I received more campaign material and phone calls from Ciscomani than I did from Engel. I saw no signs on the streets until the last week. I was not surprised by her loss.
It doesn’t appear that the Democratic Party fought very hard for this seat. The candidate can’t do it alone. Kirsten Engel probably ran as good a campaign as she could with the resources available to her.
What I do remember is this attack ad running on the TV quite often and there was no effective response from the Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSJvmZoYIU
I never heard of Juan Ciscomani before this election and all I heard from him during the campaign was the usual GOP talking points.
It’s harder for the Democrats to win this district now but they had a chance in 2018 to win and hold on to it for many years. Instead they ran elderly Ann Kirkpatrick who lasted for two terms.
If the Democrats aren’t willing to fight for this seat they are going to lose it again.
Latest registration stats from Az Secretary of State for CD 6:
Democrats: 166,691
Republicans 186,705
Other 167,524.
Kirsten has to rely on the Dem Vote and lots from the independents in CD 6 to win. She lost a close race by 5,232 votes to Ciscomani in Nov. 2022, 50.7% to 49.2%.