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LD30 · 2-Year Term
Population
245,615
Registered Voters
169,931
District Lean
R+43.8
Voter Registration Breakdown
Debate recap
GOP candidates in ranch-heavy western Arizona back Trump’s beef plan “The problem isn’t what’s coming in, it’s what we’re not producing,” Gannuscio said. “And the president’s trying to bring that beef in, and make it easier for ranchers to retain their heifers and grow their ranches bigger,” Republican candidate Mike Gannuscio said.
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Republican · Senate
Leo Biasiucci has served in the House since 2019 and is moving to the Senate unopposed. He was House majority leader from 2023 until January 2025 and now chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He owns Mohave Traffic Survival School, holds a business degree from the University of Arizona and lists acting work with SAG-AFTRA. He was the top vote-getter in LD30's 2024 House race and drew no primary opponent this year, so no Senate debate was held.
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State House
Republican · House
Mike Gannuscio is a rancher who led the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, and who says he also worked as a Mohave County law enforcement officer. He topped a five-way Republican primary in July. He backed President Trump's plan to import ground beef to cut prices, a position the national cattle industry's largest groups opposed, and told debate moderators he would vote against a clean renewal of Proposition 123 because he wants to know where school money goes.
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Republican · House
David Rose is a pastor and a member of the Lake Havasu Unified School District board, which he leads as president. Rose served years in a Kentucky prison over a collapsed Louisville newspaper he founded, on charges of theft of services and theft by deception tied to bad checks. He has told news outlets he paid full restitution and had his rights restored. Turning Point Action's faith arm endorsed him.
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Democrat · House
Brian McMahan is a former fire chief for the Parker and Buckskin fire districts and the only Democrat on the LD30 House ballot, having run unopposed in the July primary. Ballotpedia lists no occupation, education or campaign finance for him. He says the Legislature's failure to curb fraud in the school voucher program is a reason he is running, citing gift cards and custom tires bought with ESA money, and he wants a moratorium on new data centers.
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