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Scott Watson, a Cornville resident and member of the Cross Church parish, said giving hormone treatments or gender affirming surgeries to young, healthy children is "unconscionable."

"That healthy children should be drugged into sterility or otherwise mutilated is unconscionable!" Watson said. "I am genuinely frightened for my two granddaughters who live in California, that they might be at risk of being taken away from their parents if they say they like trucks instead of dolls or wonder what it might be like to live like a boy, and innocently express that to an agent of the government."

Former President Donald Trump (R) leads President Biden (D) by ten points among Arizona voters in the 2024 race for the White House, according to a recent poll of Arizona voters released by American Greatness.

Trump leads Biden 42 to 32 percent, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (I) at 13%. In a two-way race, Trump is ahead of Biden 48-42 percent, with 11% undecided.

In June, Trump launched a “Swamp the Vote” campaign by asking voters to vote early, absentee, by mail, or in person on Election Day.

“Republicans must win and we must use every available appropriate tool to beat the Democrats,” Trump said in a video announcing the “Swamp the Vote” effort. “Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail or in person, we must swamp the radical Democrats with massive turnout.”

When it comes to early voting, more than half of Arizona's Democrat registered voters are on the state's Active Early Voter List (AEVL), compared with just 46 percent of Republicans, reported the Grand Canyon Times.

Of the state's 2.104 million registered Democrats, 1.059 million of them-- or 50.1 percent-- are on the AEVL list. Arizona has 2.316 million registered Republicans, and 1.068 million of them-- 46.1 percent-- have signed up for the list.

Arizona county election authorities mail ballots to voters on the AEVL 27 days prior to every election.

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Voter Profile

Name: Scott Watson

Parish: Cross Church, Cornville

Occupation: Retired

First presidential ballot cast: 1976

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The open southern border and accompanying human trafficking, runaway government deficit spending,  gender affirming medical procedures and medications being administered to children