Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he's running for Congress.
Nez, a 48-year-old Democrat, will vie for the seat occupied by incumbent Eli Crane, a Republican who has represented Arizona's redrawn 2nd Congressional District since last year.
"I grew up in a rural, low-income home, in a long-overlooked community where my family lived paycheck-to-paycheck, worried about how we'd make ends meet. I understand the struggles that many Arizona families are facing right now," Nez said in a statement Monday.He was the Navajo Nation's president from 2019-23 after serving four years as the tribe's vice president.
However, the state's 2nd District has about 30,000 more voters registered as Republicans than as Democrats with an estimated 160,000 voters registered as independent.
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