FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race.This year proved that.
Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to victory in a state that hadn't supported a Democratic in a White House contest since 1996.
Native Americans were among the difference-makers who swung the race to Biden in Arizona.“It truly takes a village," said Clara Pratte, a political operative and Navajo woman who led national tribal engagements for the Biden campaign. “Could it have been done without a tribal vote?