AZ GOPers booed Trump-endorsed gubernatorial hopeful Karrin Taylor Robson at annual state meeting, cheering rival Andy Biggs

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona announced Saturday that he is running for governor in 2026. Biggs, a Jan. 6 p r oponent and member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, made the announcement at an Arizona Republican Party event, telling the crowd: “I am jumping in formally. It is now time to Make Arizona Great Again.”

Gina Swoboda, an election lawyer endorsed by President Donald Trump, beat back an attempt to replace her by former state Rep. Cory McGarr.

On a party-line vote, an Arizona House committee advanced a GOP-backed bill that would require the state’s 15 counties to eliminate voting centers and force voters to return precinct-based polling places.

The bill would make it illegal for a city to spend less on its police force than it did in the year prior. But no Arizona cities have reduced their police budgets since the 2008 recession.

Arizona Senate Republicans want to make sure state public safety agencies are cooperating with federal immigration authorities as raids and enforcement operations are underway in major U.S. cities.

The new congressman still hasn't spoken about efforts to limit birthright citizenship in a way that would have excluded him.

Arizona Republicans overwhelmingly reelected Gina Swoboda to continue as chairwoman of the party months after the GOP scored victories up and down the ballot in the 2024 elections.

On the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Arizona Democrats called on their Republican colleagues to support repealing anti-abortion laws that remain on the books, saying that voters want guaranteed access to the procedure,

Arizona Republican officials voted to keep their leader, Gina Swoboda, for another year on Saturday at the state GOP’s annual meeting ... Dream City Church in Phoenix and voted for top officers ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona Senate Republicans want to make sure state public safety agencies are cooperating with federal immigration authorities as raids and enforcement operations are ...

Trump, who won Arizona — a “purple” swing state — by more than 5 percentage points in 2024 after losing to former President Joe Biden in 2020, encouraged businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson to jump in the race in 2026 while delivering his victory speech in Phoenix in December.