Democrats are facing several challenges in one of six crucial swing states that polling suggests could determine the outcome of the 2024 election.

President Joe Biden won Arizona in the 2020 general election, and then Democrats took control of important offices statewide, like the governorship, during the 2022 midterms. Since then, Republicans have been looking for their way back to power without much hope in sight until now.

The Cook Political Report, which used to show Arizona as a “toss-up” between Biden and Trump, now considers the state a “lean Republican.”

Biden’s disastrous debate performance has put a severe strain on not just his campaign but also on Democrats down the ballot. Many are worried that Biden at the top of the ticket will jeopardize their races in Arizona. Democrat Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva was one of the first congressmen in his party to call on Biden to end his campaign and allow a different candidate to jump in to lead them through the “precarious” position the Democrats are in.

“What he needs to do is shoulder the responsibility for keeping that seat — and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race,” Grijalva told The New York Times.

“We have to win this race, and we have to hold the House and hold the Senate,” he told the outlet, adding that Trump’s momentum is so strong that everything Democrats have built over the last four years “goes down the sewer” with Biden on the ticket.

Democrat Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet also expressed concerns over Biden’s effect on down-ballot races, admitting that Trump could “take with him the Senate and the House” should he win the White House, Axios reported.

For the most part, Grijalva is the only Arizona Democrat speaking out publicly against Biden. Democrat Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, the presumptive party nominee for the U.S. Senate, dismissed concerns over Biden’s down-ballot effects to Business Insider.

“We’ve always been running a strong race, and will continue to run a strong race,” he said. Gallego told the outlet that he doesn’t pay much attention to polls that suggest Arizona is leaning Republican. However, he added that voters still need to see more of Biden to feel confident he’s the right candidate.

“What the voters are saying is that they want to see him out there,” Gallego said. “They want to see him being able to do the job, and I think, you know, he has to show that.”

Gallego will likely face Republican candidate Kari Lake, who narrowly lost her Arizona gubernatorial bid in 2022 to Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs. Lake has wasted no time capitalizing on Gallego’s support of Biden since the presidential debate. Her recent ad said that voters in Arizona “witnessed Joe Biden incoherently try to defend his failed policies,” adding that “Radical Ruben Gallego voted for every one of Biden’s disastrous policies, 100% of the time.”

Hobbs has also supported Biden’s candidacy, telling reporters that he “can do the job” but still has “a lot to do to assure Arizonans and Americans,” according to the Arizona Republican.

The Democratic Mayors Association (DMA) released a statement on July 9 stating they are “all in for Biden-Harris and are proud to support them for reelection this November.”

“We need a President and Vice President who will champion working families, defend our democracy, and protect our freedoms. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are that President and Vice President, and President Biden showed tonight that he is fully committed to working with us to defeat Donald Trump once and for all,” the DMA stated.

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is the President of the DMA.

Making matters worse for Arizona Democrats, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the voter integrity case, Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes, to uphold citizenship requirements for voters in the state. Voters in Arizona who register with the state and do not provide proof of citizenship will be rejected.

Republican Arizona state Sen. Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate and one of the intervenor-defendants in the case, called the decision a “victory for election integrity in Arizona.”

“Only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in our elections. It sounds like common sense, but the radical left elected officials in our state continue to reject this notion, disrespecting the voices of our lawful Arizona voters. We are grateful the court is upholding this provision in our law, and it’s time for Congress to take action to ensure only lawful U.S. citizens are voting in federal races,” Petersen said.

After decades of showing a united front that seemed to never waiver, Americans are watching the Democrats implode. It all came tumbling down when Biden took the debate stage. They were forced to admit the man they had propped up and paraded in front of the American people as a vibrant world leader was nothing more than an old man well past his prime and potentially suffering from dementia and mental decline. The decisions they have championed while he’s been in office brought actual harm to everyday Americans.

Their gamble did not pay off. That debate will likely cost them the White House and control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.