NEW ADS, ENDORSEMENTS AND POLLING: Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Announce More Than $1.6 Million Investment in Arizona, New Round of Endorsements, Polling, and Ads
10.11.2024
New Ads Launching As Part of Seven-Figure Effort to Elect Gun Sense Champions
New Polling Shows Gun Violence is Important Issue When Voting
to Majority of Arizona Voters
PHOENIX— Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced a more than $1.6 million paid media campaign in Arizona for the 2024 elections. New digital ads and direct mailers will run across targeted state legislative battleground districts and focus on highlighting Arizona MAGA Republicans’ opposition to common-sense gun safety laws and the extreme guns everywhere agenda they will push in Phoenix.
“Our polling confirms that the overwhelming majority of Arizona voters are looking for candidates who will fight to keep our schools and our families safe from gun violence,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Everytown is making sure voters know that Arizona communities would be at risk if MAGA Republicans have total control of Phoenix.”
Watch one of Everytown’s new ads here:
As a part of today’s announcement, Everytown released a new poll in Arizona showing the power of gun safety for voters. A full memo is available here, and key findings include:
- Specific gun violence prevention policies enjoy widespread majority support. Polling on gun issues has long shown clear support for specific gun policies that transcends party lines, and the battleground here is no exception. In this current poll, the most popular gun safety proposals are background checks (78% strong support), prohibiting domestic abusers from owning guns (71%), and safe storage measures (70%).
- Notably, these proposals also gain support among solid majorities of Republicans (68% strongly support background checks, 63% preventing domestic abusers from owning guns and 56% safe storage measures).
- When voters are given balanced examples or explanations, more support stronger gun laws. When questions around support for stronger gun laws are framed around “protecting people from gun violence” or safer schools, a majority are in support of stronger laws (51% favor protecting people from gun violence over protecting the rights of gun owners, and 50% support stronger gun laws to make it safer for children over the rights of gun owners).
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is also announcing new endorsements for candidates in key battleground legislative seats:
- John McLean, State Senate, District 17
- Stephanie Simacek, State Representative, District 02
- Sarah Liguori, State Representative, District 05
- Nicholas Gonzales, State Representative, District 13
- Kevin Volk, State Representative, District 17
- Chris Mathis, State Representative, District 18
Earlier this year, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced endorsements of volunteers running for Arizona legislature:
- Judy Schwiebert, State Senate, District 02
- Christine Marsh, State Senate, District 04
- Haley Creighton, State Senate, District 07
- Alan Smith, State Senate, District 15
- Karen Gresham, State Representative, District 04
- Kelli Butler, State Representative, District 04
- Aaron Marquez, State Representative, District 05
- Brandy Reese, State Representative, District 13
- Nancy Gutierrez, State Representative, District 18
- Consuelo Hernandez, State Representative, District 21
- Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, State Representative, District 21
- Deborah Howard, State Representative, District 27
In July, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund announced a $45 million electoral program and the launch of a new grassroots voter contact program to help elect gun sense candidates and defeat gun extremists up and down the ballot in key swing districts and states. Everytown’s efforts will focus on young voters on college campuses, voters of color, and suburban women in Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Last month, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced a record $7.5 million investment to train and elect Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, including many running in key races across the country.
Paid for by Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund. Not authorized by a candidate.