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Supports bringing high-paying jobs to Arizona and aiding small businesses through increased funding and tax deductions. As a House Representative, voted for the CHIPS and Science Act to create semiconductor manufacturing jobs.

Wants to bring high-paying jobs and help small businesses.

Supports raising the minimum wage to $15/hour and empowering workers to organize and collectively bargain.

Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain.

Believes billionaires and corporations should pay their fair share by ending tax loopholes and exorbitant giveaways.

Plans to address tax loopholes to ensure people "pay their fair share."

Believes Wall Street bankers and big corporations are getting richer while everyday people are being squeezed. Supports building an economy that works for everyone and makes life affordable for hard-working families.

Wants to "build an economy that works for everyone, and makes life affordable for hard-working families."

- Wants to bring high-paying jobs and help small businesses.
- Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain.
- Plans to address tax loopholes to ensure people "pay their fair share."
- Wants to "build an economy that works for everyone, and makes life affordable for hard-working families."

Economy

Supports expanding Medicaid and opposes the privatization of Medicare.

Believes in lowering health care costs and ensuring access to high-quality health care for all Arizonans. As a House Representative, led efforts on prescription drug reform.

Wants to lower health care costs and pass prescription drug reforms.

The candidate's website says, "As your Senator, Ruben will continue to champion the right to choose—starting by waiving the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade."

Supports abortion and wants to put Roe v. Wade into law.

Believes in protecting women's health care and sensitive medical data. As a House Representative, co-sponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act and the My Body, My Data Act.

Believes in protecting women's health care providers and sensitive medical data. 

Believes in improving access to quality healthcare for tribal communities. As a House Representative, sponsored legislation to support Urban Indian Health Organizations and the Indian Health Service.

Plans to improve access to quality healthcare for tribal communities.

Believes "health care is a human right" and that the current system is "unacceptable" for not providing high-quality, comprehensive care to all Arizonans.

Said, "Health care is a human right, and in the wealthiest nation on the planet, it is unacceptable that high-quality, comprehensive health care is not accessible for all Arizonans."

- Supports expanding Medicaid and opposes the privatization of Medicare.
- Wants to lower health care costs and pass prescription drug reforms.
- Supports abortion and wants to put Roe v. Wade into law.
- Believes in protecting women's health care providers and sensitive medical data. 
- Plans to improve access to quality healthcare for tribal communities.
- Said, "Health care is a human right, and in the wealthiest nation on the planet, it is unacceptable that high-quality, comprehensive health care is not accessible for all Arizonans."

Healthcare

Plans to codify voting rights bills into law to protect the right to vote.

Supports improving voting access for Native Americans with disabilities through the PAVA Program Inclusion Act.

Wants to improve voting access for Native Americans.

Believes extremist GOP legislators are "actively suppressing the vote" and attempting to overturn free and fair elections. Said, "American democracy is at an inflection point," and supports leaders who understand these challenges.

Said, "Extremist GOP legislators in Arizona and across the country are actively suppressing the vote and attempting to overturn the results of free and fair elections."

- Plans to codify voting rights bills into law to protect the right to vote.
- Wants to improve voting access for Native Americans.
- Said, "Extremist GOP legislators in Arizona and across the country are actively suppressing the vote and attempting to overturn the results of free and fair elections."

Voting & Elections

As a House Representative, led efforts to address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and improve tribal law enforcement through the BADGES in Native Communities Act.

Advocates for improved tribal law enforcement and addressing missing and murdered indigenous women.

- Advocates for improved tribal law enforcement and addressing missing and murdered indigenous women.

Public Safety

Supports universal kindergarten and making sure every child has access to high quality, full day kindergarten.

Believes investing in educators is essential to improving student outcomes. As a House Representative, introduced the Teachers LEAD Act to support teachers and improve retention.

Believes investing in educators is important in improving student outcomes. 

Supports expanding access to education from early childhood to college, including universal full-day kindergarten, increased public school funding, and affordable higher education.

Advocates for increased public school funding and affordable higher education.

Believes in strong public schools, career and technical training, and affordable higher education for all Arizona children. Plans to advocate for these educational opportunities in the Senate.

Believes in strong public schools, affordable higher education, and vocational training for all children. Plans to advocate for these educational opportunities in the Senate.

Believes education can transform lives and supports equal educational opportunities for all children. As a Congressman, works to provide transformative educational opportunities that helped him achieve the American Dream.

- Supports universal kindergarten and making sure every child has access to high quality, full day kindergarten.
- Believes investing in educators is important in improving student outcomes. 
- Advocates for increased public school funding and affordable higher education.

Education

Supports comprehensive veterans' benefits, including housing, education, and health care, and advocates for policies aiding veterans exposed to toxic substances. As a former Veterans’ Affairs Committee member, sponsored legislation to protect veterans' compensation rights.

Supports comprehensive veterans' benefits, including housing, education, and health care.

Advocates for funding to hire more border patrol agents.

Supports providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and children  under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Believes America can lead globally and "stand up to enemies of democracy." Supports Arizona's role through military communities, innovative manufacturing, and world-class universities.

Believes America can lead globally and "stand up to enemies of democracy" through military communities, manufacturing, and quality universities.

Believes border communities face a serious crisis and supports securing borders, reforming immigration, and stopping fentanyl flow. Plans to ensure a prosperous cross-border economy.

Said, "We need smart ways to keep our border secure, allow for a prosperous cross-border economy, reform a broken immigration system, and stop the flow of fentanyl into our communities."

- Supports comprehensive veterans' benefits, including housing, education, and health care.
- Advocates for funding to hire more border patrol agents.
- Supports providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and children  under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
- Believes America can lead globally and "stand up to enemies of democracy" through military communities, manufacturing, and quality universities.
- Said, "We need smart ways to keep our border secure, allow for a prosperous cross-border economy, reform a broken immigration system, and stop the flow of fentanyl into our communities."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports preserving public lands and expanding access to national parks, especially for veterans and Gold Star families. As a House Representative, led efforts to protect areas like the Grand Canyon from industry exploitation.

Advocates for preserving public lands and expanding access to national parks.

Believes water is a top priority for Arizona's future and supports efforts to combat urban heat and ensure water availability.

Believes in protecting public lands and the environment for future generations. Supports preserving natural beauty, such as the Grand Canyon and Humphreys Peak.

Believes a safe and healthy future for families depends on sustainable water access. Plans to fight for this access as Arizona’s next Senator.

Believes in protecting Arizona's water resources. Supports environmental policies to ensure sustainable water management.

- Advocates for preserving public lands and expanding access to national parks.
- Believes water is a top priority for Arizona's future and supports efforts to combat urban heat and ensure water availability.

Energy & the Environment

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Supports a "just transition to a democratically controlled eco-socialist economy through a Green New Deal," and aims to protect and expand workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively, ensure fair taxation, and pay livable wages.

Plans to protect and expand workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively, ensure fair taxation, and pay livable wages.

Supports formulating reparations to address the "heinous crimes of slavery."

Supports reparations to address the "heinous crimes of slavery."

Wants to introduce proportional taxation, a tax rate that remains constant regardless of the amount of income or wealth.

Plans to work with organizations worldwide to promote economic justice.

Wants to work with organizations worldwide to promote economic justice.

Supports eliminating poverty and economic exploitation.

Advocates for social justice and eliminating poverty and economic exploitation.

- Plans to protect and expand workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively, ensure fair taxation, and pay livable wages.
- Supports reparations to address the "heinous crimes of slavery."
- Wants to introduce proportional taxation, a tax rate that remains constant regardless of the amount of income or wealth.
- Wants to work with organizations worldwide to promote economic justice.
- Advocates for social justice and eliminating poverty and economic exploitation.

Supports medicial, reproductive, and personal choice.

Said, "I support women’s right to choose, I support women’s right to control their own bodies."

- Supports medicial, reproductive, and personal choice.
- Supports universal healthcare.
- Said, "I support women’s right to choose, I support women’s right to control their own bodies."

Believes in promoting free and fair elections.

Wants to promote free and fair elections.

- Wants to promote free and fair elections.

Wants to end "police brutality and mass incarceration."

Wants to end police brutality and mass incarceration.

- Wants to end police brutality and mass incarceration.

Supports reducing the military budget, ending U.S./NATO wars of aggression, and shrinking the military-industrial complex.

Supports reducing the military budget and shrinking the military-industrial complex.

Supports stopping what he calls "the genocide in Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon."

Wants to stop the war economy and end the genocide in Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon.

Believes undocumented immigrants are a result of "humanitarian crises that we many times caused."

Said, "“If we don’t like immigrants we need to stop creating them. We need to start moving towards seeing immigrants as seeing people that are going through a humanitarian crisis that we many times caused.”

- Supports reducing the military budget and shrinking the military-industrial complex.
- Wants to stop the war economy and end the genocide in Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon.
- Said, "“If we don’t like immigrants we need to stop creating them. We need to start moving towards seeing immigrants as seeing people that are going through a humanitarian crisis that we many times caused.”

Supports phasing out fossil fuels for renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.

Believes in ensuring "the long-term sustainability of human civilizations" through environmental conservation and sustainable energy practices.

Plans to ensure the "long-term sustainability of human civilizations."

- Supports phasing out fossil fuels for renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
- Plans to ensure the "long-term sustainability of human civilizations."

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Believes the federal government’s overspending causes inflation and plans to cut spending, reduce bureaucracy, and empower American workers to grow the economy.

Believes Joe Biden’s policies have "crushed Arizona" with record inflation and a severe illegal immigration crisis. Said, "Arizonans are dealing with record inflation – up 20 percent under the Biden administration."

Believes President Biden’s policies have "crushed Arizona" with record inflation and "the worst illegal immigration crisis in American history." 

Supports reducing federal regulations to ensure Arizona’s farmers and ranchers have access to necessary resources.

Supports "America First" economic policies, emphasizing the importance of small businesses and preserving Arizona’s western heritage.

- Believes the federal government’s overspending causes inflation and plans to cut spending, reduce bureaucracy, and empower American workers to grow the economy.
- Believes President Biden’s policies have "crushed Arizona" with record inflation and "the worst illegal immigration crisis in American history." 
- Supports reducing federal regulations to ensure Arizona’s farmers and ranchers have access to necessary resources.
- Supports "America First" economic policies, emphasizing the importance of small businesses and preserving Arizona’s western heritage.

Kari Lake defends anti-LGBTQ discrimination in Arizona: 'I have a lot of gay friends'

Believes in providing comprehensive support for young mothers to choose life, including quality pre-natal care and financial assistance. Said, "Lots of women come to regret having gotten an abortion, very few regret having a child."

Believes in providing comprehensive support for young mothers, including quality pre-natal care and financial assistance.

Believes life is priceless and supports state-level decisions on abortion, opposing a federal ban. Recognizes Arizona's 15-week abortion law and supports restrictions on late-term and partial-birth abortions.

Supports state-level decisions on abortion and opposes a federal ban.

Recognizes Arizona's 15-week abortion law and supports restrictions on late-term and partial-birth abortions.

Opposed protection of the LGBTQ+ community under state discrimination law.

- Believes in providing comprehensive support for young mothers, including quality pre-natal care and financial assistance.
- Supports state-level decisions on abortion and opposes a federal ban.
- Recognizes Arizona's 15-week abortion law and supports restrictions on late-term and partial-birth abortions.
- Opposed protection of the LGBTQ+ community under state discrimination law.

Opposes the use of electronic voting machines, mail-in ballots, and voting before Election Day.

- Opposes the use of electronic voting machines, mail-in ballots, and voting before Election Day.

Believes fentanyl and meth are "destroying our cities" and causing a surge in crime. Said, "Democrat policies are putting America and Americans last," impacting housing and wages.

Believes fentanyl and meth are "destroying our cities" and causing a surge in crime.

Opposes federal support for "harm reduction" policies, advocating instead for services and treatment to address homelessness and drug use.

Supports rebuilding a national system of in-patient treatment centers, halfway houses, and assisted-living facilities for drug and mental health treatment.

Supports law enforcement and honors fallen officers. Criticizes opponent for endorsement from an anti-police group.

Supports law enforcement and honors fallen officers.

Believes in "enforcing the laws we already have on the books" to improve public safety. Supports strong law enforcement and criminal justice measures.

Believes in "enforcing the laws we already have on the books" to improve public safety.

- Believes fentanyl and meth are "destroying our cities" and causing a surge in crime.
- Opposes federal support for "harm reduction" policies, advocating instead for services and treatment to address homelessness and drug use.
- Supports rebuilding a national system of in-patient treatment centers, halfway houses, and assisted-living facilities for drug and mental health treatment.
- Supports law enforcement and honors fallen officers.
- Believes in "enforcing the laws we already have on the books" to improve public safety.

Supports providing $5,000 vouchers for high school graduates to attend community colleges, trade schools, or certificate programs, addressing the deficit in skilled workers and reducing the financial burden of higher education.

Supports ending "teaching to the test" by replacing annual testing with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) every four years. Believes current testing practices are ineffective and detrimental to students' futures.

Supports ending "teaching to the test" by replacing annual testing with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) every four years.

Believes in returning American education to a world-class standard by focusing on mathematics, science, and language. Plans to reduce federal bureaucratic interference in local schools.

Supports an emphasis on mathematics, science, and language in American education.

Supports cutting federal bureaucracy in education and reallocating savings to local schools through block grants. Believes in trusting states and local school districts to ensure children's success.

Supports cutting federal involvement in education and reallocating savings to local schools through block grants.

Opposes annual testing requirements in K-12 schools. Supports policies that prioritize children's education and reduce standardized testing pressures.

Opposes annual testing requirements in K-12 schools and supports policies that prioritize children's education and reduce standardized testing pressures.

Opposes "critical race theory" being taught in schools.

- Supports providing $5,000 vouchers for high school graduates to attend community colleges, trade schools, or certificate programs, addressing the deficit in skilled workers and reducing the financial burden of higher education.
- Supports ending "teaching to the test" by replacing annual testing with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) every four years.
- Supports an emphasis on mathematics, science, and language in American education.
- Supports cutting federal involvement in education and reallocating savings to local schools through block grants.
- Opposes annual testing requirements in K-12 schools and supports policies that prioritize children's education and reduce standardized testing pressures.
- Opposes "critical race theory" being taught in schools.

Supports withholding foreign aid from countries that do not help prevent illegal migration.

Supports withholding foreign aid from countries that do not help prevent undocumented migration.

Supports additional legislative action to combat international criminal cartels, address illegal immigration, and prevent future mass migration.

Supports additional legislative action to combat international criminal cartels, address undocumented immigration, and prevent future mass migration.

Believes in providing assistance to nations combating violent, organized crime and international criminal cartels. Supports strengthening foreign partnerships to address global security threats.

Believes in providing assistance to nations combating violent, organized crime and international criminal cartels.

Believes in enhancing technological surveillance and monitoring to assist Border Patrol with interceptions. Supports strong immigration policies and prioritizes military and veterans' issues.

Believes in improving technological surveillance and monitoring to assist Border Patrol with interceptions.

Believes veterans deserve appreciation for risking their lives to defend freedom. Supports policies that honor and protect veterans' sacrifices.

Supports policies that honor and protect veterans.

Supports new childcare centers and schools for military children, increased pay for childcare providers, and bonuses and enhanced training for teachers educating servicemembers' children.

- Supports withholding foreign aid from countries that do not help prevent undocumented migration.
- Supports additional legislative action to combat international criminal cartels, address undocumented immigration, and prevent future mass migration.
- Believes in providing assistance to nations combating violent, organized crime and international criminal cartels.
- Believes in improving technological surveillance and monitoring to assist Border Patrol with interceptions.
- Supports policies that honor and protect veterans.
- Supports new childcare centers and schools for military children, increased pay for childcare providers, and bonuses and enhanced training for teachers educating servicemembers' children.

Supports forming an engineering working group with various agencies to explore options like desalination and river pipelining to increase fresh water supply in the Mountain West and Southwest.

Believes a new water delivery system for Western states is crucial for national and economic security. Plans to exempt it from "extremely lengthy environmental review processes and legal challenges."

Believes a new water delivery system for Western states is crucial for national and economic security and plans to exempt it from "extremely lengthy environmental review processes and legal challenges."

Supports using federal funds to build major water delivery systems and help rural communities transition from groundwater sourcing to preserve the environment and water tables.

Believes Democrats are waging a "war on cheap, plentiful American energy," causing high utility rates and gas prices. Said, "The policies of the radical left are taking a toll we simply can’t afford."

Said, "Democrats are waging a war on cheap, plentiful American energy. Utility rates are exploding. Gas prices are through the roof."

Believes our energy future lies in "new, safe, and clean nuclear and reactor technologies." Plans to open oil reserves for exploration, reduce fuel and utility costs, and expand energy exports.

Believes the future of energy lies in "new, safe, and clean nuclear and reactor technologies."

Believes "waging a war on clean-burning oil and natural gas is counterproductive and unrealistic." Supports reducing pollution and transitioning from coal to natural gas for further emission reductions.

Believes "waging a war on clean-burning oil and natural gas is counterproductive and unrealistic" and supports reducing pollution and transitioning from coal to natural gas for further emission reductions.

Plans to protect Arizona farmers, ranchers, and citizens from cuts while ensuring the long-term viability of the Colorado River Basin as a vital resource.

Supports conserving the environment and lands for animals and Arizonans to enjoy.

Supports conserving the environment and natural lands for animals and Arizonans.

Plans to open oil reserves for exploration, reduce fuel and utility costs, and expand energy exports.

- Supports forming an engineering working group with various agencies to explore options like desalination and river pipelining to increase fresh water supply in the Mountain West and Southwest.
- Believes a new water delivery system for Western states is crucial for national and economic security and plans to exempt it from "extremely lengthy environmental review processes and legal challenges."
- Supports using federal funds to build major water delivery systems and help rural communities transition from groundwater sourcing to preserve the environment and water tables.
- Said, "Democrats are waging a war on cheap, plentiful American energy. Utility rates are exploding. Gas prices are through the roof."
- Believes the future of energy lies in "new, safe, and clean nuclear and reactor technologies."
- Believes "waging a war on clean-burning oil and natural gas is counterproductive and unrealistic" and supports reducing pollution and transitioning from coal to natural gas for further emission reductions.
- Plans to protect Arizona farmers, ranchers, and citizens from cuts while ensuring the long-term viability of the Colorado River Basin as a vital resource.
- Supports conserving the environment and natural lands for animals and Arizonans.
- Plans to open oil reserves for exploration, reduce fuel and utility costs, and expand energy exports.

Endorsed by former President Trump as well as multiple federal and state officeholders.

Received endorsements from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Oil and Gas Workers Association.

- Endorsed by former President Trump as well as multiple federal and state officeholders.
- Received endorsements from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Oil and Gas Workers Association.

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