Sarah Smith
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3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not just as a referendum on the president, but also because Arizona is a pretty crucial electoral battleground.
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And the person who won, I think, probably, Anthony, we could say is Donald Trump, isn't it?
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Yeah, because some of the reasons he was backing these candidates might not help them in the general election.
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You've got several who are election deniers, as it's called.
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These are people who still say
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that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
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Some of them were actively involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
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So yeah, they go into this election with millstones around their neck, possibly hung there by Donald Trump himself.
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Yes.
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So just on the election denial for now, you could end up, if these Republicans were to win their races in a situation where the governor, the secretary of state, who, as you say, is in charge of overseeing elections and the attorney general, all election deniers overseeing the 2028 presidential election, all of whom also have said that they are keen on trying to
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Restrict voting.
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So they support Donald Trump's SAVE Act, which would mean that people had to prove their citizenship in order to register to vote and take ID to polling stations.
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But also they can introduce restrictions just statewide, can't they?
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Limiting early voting and things like that if they wanted.
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And so looking at that, you would be tempted to think that that's representative of how American voters have changed their mind about Donald Trump or about different candidates.
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But of course, a lot of it is because the state's demographics have changed, isn't it?
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You've got a lot of new people moving into the states, college educated voters coming in, people bringing more Democratic voters with them.
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A lot of Californians.
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And Anthony, what we could hear there was that it was this loyalty test that there is still in the Republican Party, where if you want Donald Trump's favor, you have to say you believe the 2020 election was stolen from him, whether you really believe that or not.
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And in fact, even just in the last couple of weeks, we've had other people say,
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