'We can't go back': Tribal leaders welcome vice presidential candidate Tim Walz to Arizona

Before Gila River Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis welcomed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to Arizona, he reminded the room full of tribal leaders and voting advocates that the key for Indian Country to move forward is to turn out the Native vote across Arizona, because it was Native voters in 2020 that helped Biden win the election by less than 11,000 votes.

“We know that every vote matters — and that every Native vote makes a difference,” he said on Oct. 9.

Lewis said that, as the country enters the final phase of the election, Democrats have been focused on the “blue wall” — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but they would be smart to recognize what he said is a “tribal wall” of five swing states with large Indigenous populations that could impact the election.

“Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina and Michigan all have substantial tribal populations,” he said. “And if we make our voices heard by voting, we can do in the rest of the country what we did here in Arizona in 2020: help elect the next president and vice president of the United States.”


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