{"id":1056201,"date":"2025-09-24T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056201"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:16:32","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-on-adelita-grijalvas-resounding-victory-in-arizonas-seventh-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-adelita-grijalvas-resounding-victory-in-arizonas-seventh-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement on Adelita Grijalva\u2019s Resounding Victory in Arizona\u2019s Seventh Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>With Grijalva\u2019s victory, Democrats will hold a bipartisan majority to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight, Adelita Grijalva resoundingly won her bid to represent Arizona\u2019s 7th in Congress after soundly defeating Trump lackey Daniel Butierez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Rep.-elect Grijalva focused on lowering costs and protecting Arizonans\u2019 Social Security and health insurance, her opponent couldn\u2019t find a Trump policy he didn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, as Mike Johnson struggles with one of the thinnest House majorities in American history, his job just got even harder since Adelita has made clear she\u2019s ready to fight back against Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/navigatorresearch.org\/majorities-say-the-republican-budget-will-mostly-benefit-the-rich\/\">deeply unpopular<\/a> agenda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep.-elect Grijalva has also pledged to sign the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, bringing Democrats a 218th vote and a bipartisan majority to demand accountability and transparency.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With tonight\u2019s win, Democrats have now won or overperformed in 45 out of 46 key elections this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Rep.-elect Grijalva\u2019s victory, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRep.-elect Grijalva won a hard-fought race. Now, Arizonans will have a fighter in their corner who will stand up to Trump on behalf of families who want to see real leadership in Washington. I know she will never back down from doing what\u2019s right for her community \u2014 lowering prices, lowering health care costs, and protecting social security. As the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress, Grijalva is a trailblazer who will work on behalf of her constituents, not bend the knee to billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Grijalva\u2019s victory, Democrats will hold a bipartisan majority to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files Tonight, Adelita Grijalva resoundingly won her bid to represent Arizona\u2019s 7th in Congress after soundly defeating Trump lackey Daniel Butierez. While Rep.-elect Grijalva focused on lowering costs and protecting Arizonans\u2019 Social Security and health insurance, her opponent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Statement on Adelita Grijalva\u2019s Resounding Victory in Arizona\u2019s Seventh Congressional District - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-adelita-grijalvas-resounding-victory-in-arizonas-seventh-congressional-district\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T04:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T13:16:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-adelita-grijalvas-resounding-victory-in-arizonas-seventh-congressional-district\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-on-adelita-grijalvas-resounding-victory-in-arizonas-seventh-congressional-district\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Statement on Adelita Grijalva\u2019s Resounding Victory in Arizona\u2019s Seventh Congressional District - 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