Arizonans in Congressional District 7 have picked candidates to run in the special general election for U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s seat.
Adelita Grijalva, the late Democratic congressman’s daughter, is the projected winner of the Democratic special primary, which was held Tuesday along with the Republican primary. As of Wednesday morning, she had 33,104 vote or 62% of the ballots cast, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
Daniel Butierez is the projected winner among the Republicans, with 9,817 votes or 60.7% of the ballots.
The election is awaiting certification.
A former member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors and employee of the Pima County Teen Court, Grijalva defeated Democrats Deja Foxx, Daniel Hernandez, Patrick Harris Sr. and Jose “Malvido” Malvido Jr.
“Thank you to the people of District 7,” Grijalva posted on X. “This movement does not end tonight. We are just getting started.”
Both primary winners were far ahead of their opponents in the number of votes.
In the Democratic primary, the candidate with the second highest number of votes was Foxx, with 11,245 votes or 21.1% of the ballots cast. Hernandez had 14.3% of the votes, and Harris and Malvido each had less than 1.6% of the ballots.
The congressional district in southern Arizona includes the state’s most populous county, Maricopa, which is home to Phoenix. Initial results posted Wednesday on the county elections website showed Grijalva winning 2,330 votes, good enough for 52.55% of the vote. A total of 4,461 votes were cast. Turnout was 20.81%.
Other counties in the district are Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz and Yuma. Grijalva won most of the votes in all of them.
Foxx had the backing of progressive activist and former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg. During a June debate monitored by The Center Square, Foxx said she wanted to help “bring in a new generation” of legislators.
“We have three vacancies because we failed to talk about age,” said Foxx in the debate.
Still, Grijalva was endorsed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont. In a video posted on X, Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, called Grijalva “the progressive candidate” for Arizona’s 7th District.
“She’s not backed by billionaire donors,” said Sanders, who’s been traveling the country with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York City, to get progressives elected. “She is backed by the people.”
In the other primary, the Republican with the second highest number of votes in the congressional district was Jorge Rivas with 4,058 votes or 25.09% of those cast, as of Wednesday morning. Jimmy Rodriguez had 14.21% of the votes. Rivas is a Tucson restaurant owner. Roriguez is a general contractor.
In Maricopa County, Butierez is the projected winner with 760 votes or 46.63% of the vote.
“Southern Arizona deserves a fighter who knows struggle,” said Butierez on his campaign website. “A man who’s turned pain into purpose, failure into success, lives into opportunity, and will turn the challenges facing Southern Arizona into America’s greatest comeback story.”
A total of 1,676 ballots was cast in the county for the Republican primary. Turnout was 13.1%.
Gordita is a drunk like her father was. About as worthless. Gooder and harder Tucson, you deserve no less.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” H.L. Mencken
the movement is just getting started.. where’s the toilet paper
I’m so happy that Tucson/Pima County will get exactly what they want. Decades more of being the fifth poorest metro in the country. Roads literally crumbling apart, no better than third world countries. City streets flooded with drug addicts and the cartel enforcers. No jobs except working for the democrat government. No growth, deliberately and intentionally. And maybe the largest and longest continuous homeless population in the ‘100 acre wood’. The commie liberals of Tucson/Pima County couldn’t be more happy. And TUSD continuing the be one of the worst school districts in the country. Yeehaw! But what happens when the 30% of seats filled by illegals in the school districts disappear? 1 MILLION self-deports already.
The Grijalva win says much about the voters in Congressional District 7. Stupidity in this District is obviously epidemic.
Drunk pos need only apply.
All this proves that AZ is a deep Blue state with voters favoring far left policies.
Not backed by billionaires right, just multi
millionaire like sanders! We are screwed
again i think this is the same scenario as
the way the turd got in. Never held a real job
And she is the same.
she is not like daddy fat boy
more socialist/fascist in nature
There was never any doubt in my mind that Grijalva would win…..she is just one more anti american POS just like her father. Pima County and their idiot voters have learned nothing from electing liberal american hating POS like the Grijalva’s who love them some Mexicans more than the people that elected them. RIP Pima County, you for all intents and purposes a dead political zone……never to join the real world.
won’t be on my ‘one’ vote…
“She’s not backed by billionaire donors,”
So, the cartels aren’t billionaires?
The fix is already in for Grijalva to win. It doesn’t matter who actually won in reality. It will be in her favor no matter what the Dems have to do to win
That woman will win in a landslide so get used to another POS Grijalva in office for 20 years or more!
God I hope I’m wrong but the silly voters in and around Pima Co are too ignorant to be brave enough to make a change…so sad!!
Right on.