NEW: Republican Voters in AZ-06 “Are Over It” [The Atlantic]

• Arizonans are paying, on average, an extra $1,700 because of Ciscomani’s tariffs, which the vulnerable Republican voted multiple times to protect.
• Drivers are paying nearly $5 a gallon for gas in Arizona. Surging gas and diesel prices can be disastrous for Southern Arizona ranchers and farmers, who are already struggling to keep up with health care cuts and reckless tariffs.
• Nearly half of all Arizonans on SNAP lost their food assistance, while thousands saw their health care costs spike, more are bracing to potentially lose their health care, and Southern Arizona health care facilities could lose an estimated $110 million each year – all because Ciscomani cast a key vote for the Big, Ugly Law.

To put it as bluntly as the Atlantic: Ciscomani’s “constituents may not give him much reason to be optimistic” about his chances at the ballot box, especially against his Democratic challenger, JoAnna Mendoza. Mendoza raised the largest sum of any competitive House challenger in the first quarter of 2026: $2.4 million, compared to Ciscomani’s $1.1 million.

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“From protecting cost-raising tariffs to gutting health care, it’s clear Juan Ciscomani cares more about pleasing D.C. party bosses than helping Arizonans.”

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The Atlantic: Trump Voters Are Over It

• Lately, business has been rough. Costs are up, so he’s increased his prices. Employees are begging for hours he can’t give them. In Arizona, where he lives, Montoya pays $6 a gallon to fill up his food trucks with diesel. This summer, he may have to skip the California leg of his festival route because fuel is even more expensive there.
• “It’s Trump,” Montoya told us outside a popular Hispanic grocery store in Casa Grande, Arizona, much of which sits in one of the most evenly divided House districts in the country.
• Montoya voted for President Trump in 2024, but now, well, frustrated doesn’t begin to cover how he’s feeling. The president is bragging about the economy, even though everyone Montoya knows is hurting; he promised to stop wars, but started one in Iran.
• He’s planning to vote in the midterm elections this fall. But he may not choose a Republican.
• You can’t flip a funnel cake in this part of Arizona without spattering someone who sounds just like Montoya—anxious, and a little regretful about how they voted two Novembers ago.
• Casa Grande, a pit stop between Tucson and Phoenix where agricultural fields give way to new subdivisions, is on the northwestern edge of Arizona’s swingy Sixth Congressional District.
• Ciscomani is up for reelection again this year, but what we heard from some of his constituents may not give him much reason to be optimistic about his prospects.
• Shoppers outside the market bemoaned the rising price of everything: gas, meat, store-made chicharrones ($9.29 for a big bag).
• High gas prices mean that she is staying home more often—skipping Bible studies at her church, volunteering less, and even missing exercise classes.
• She doesn’t plan on voting for Ciscomani, or any other Republican for that matter, in November.
• The mood among voters was just as grim some 60 miles southeast in Oro Valley… [which is] home to many conservative voters whom Ciscomani and statewide Republicans rely on. 
• Montoya will also, he added, be researching his options for November.