Rep. Ruben Gallego pushes Biden on extreme heat response amid Arizona Senate campaign: 'He should be doing more.'
'He should be doing more': Gallego pushes Biden on extreme heat response amid Arizona Senate campaignAugust 7, 2023, 5:25 PMRep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., holds a town hall in Buckeye, Ariz., Aug. 6, as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate.When President Joe Biden lands Monday in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., intends to raise with him legislation he has introduced in the U.S.
Gallego will push legislation he introduced in June to add extreme heat to FEMA's list of major disaster-qualifying events. He meets with Biden one day after he held a town hall inside a retirement community tucked away in the West Valley of Phoenix to mark one year until Arizona's primary election. Gallego is running for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.
"We have to start doing more right now, or it's just going to get worse. And whereas many of us might not be here when things get worse than this, we have to leave a good place for our children to live and our grandchildren," Ray said. Representative Steny Hoyer speaks with Senator Kyrsten Sinema prior to an address by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, during a Joint Session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, July 19, 2023.Sinema's office did not respond to a request for comment by ABC News but told local news outlet Arizona's Family she is working and "not engaging in campaign politics.
"We are in a very dire situation where there is a [candidate] who is probably going to be under four different types of criminal counts by the time the election happens," Gallego said at the Sunday town hall. "At the same time, the elections are very close, because this world is that polarized. And Arizona can and will be the linchpin in terms of making sure whether we're going to be able to be a safe democracy and have some sane politics.
Arizona was once a Republican stronghold but has shifted to become a true battleground in American politics. Trump's slate of endorsed Republican candidates for statewide office, many who denied the results of the 2020 election, lost their midterm races last fall. Biden flipped the state for Democrats in 2020, marking just the second time in more than seven decades that a Democrat carried Arizona in a presidential election.
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