{"id":886920,"date":"2026-10-18T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886920\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:30:09","slug":"why-water-is-the-biggest-flashpoint-in-arizonas-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886920\/","title":{"rendered":"Why water is the biggest flashpoint in Arizona&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PUOVNNS7MJGLNJP2IDOMDF3XCQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PHOENIX \u2014 As the campaign team for Arizona\u2019s attorney general crafted a recent attack ad denouncing her opponent\u2019s \u201cextreme record,\u201d they weighed two options.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OKKZN6ICH5EVZNAMFBZXDB7ATI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">They could zero in on their Republican opponent\u2019s stance on abortion \u2014 one of Democrats\u2019 strongest and most impassioned issues in recent election cycles. Or they could hit him on water policy, a perennial snooze-inducer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 As the campaign team for Arizona\u2019s attorney general crafted a recent attack ad denouncing her opponent\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-886920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}