Another Forecaster Upgrades Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick's Odds in Southern AZ's CD2

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick: “It’s become blatantly clear that President Trump should not and cannot remain in office.” Credit: Courtesy Photo

Another national forecaster has delivering good news for Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick and bad news for Lea Marquez Peterson in Southern Arizona’s Congressional District 2.

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball is moving the race from the “Leans Democrat” column to the “Likely Democratic” column:

Democrats appear well on their way to putting away at least three of these four seats. We are upgrading the Democrats’ chances in the open AZ-2, moving it from Leans Democratic to Likely Democratic, after the National Republican Congressional Committee stopped spending there. NJ-2 is one of the safest Democratic pickups in the country, and CA-49, the seat from which Rep. Darrel Issa is retiring after a very close call in 2016, has long been the Democrats’ best bet in California.

In this week’s Skinny, I run down many of the challenges facing Marquez Peterson.

This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2018.