Arizona looms large as Biden battleground state

Arizona’s arid landscape will be the backdrop of a hotly contested presidential race this November as the state shapes up to become the 2020 cycle’s Wisconsin.

Political pundits have fixated on the Democratic Party’s need to rebuild its so-called “blue wall,” bolstered by states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin until 2016. But President Trump’s persistent popularity in Wisconsin, at least according to early polling against presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden, has Democrats looking to Arizona as part of a possible path back to the White House.