LD28: a safe Republican district in the northwest Valley

State Senate: Carroll vs. Braun

Frank Carroll (Republican, incumbent)

Record and key actions (verified items only; see verification notes):

• HB 2650 (2021), as a House member: he was among the House Republicans who introduced a bill to classify abortion as first degree premeditated murder and require prosecutors to charge women who receive abortions and doctors who provide them. Democrats and abortion rights groups denounced it as extreme. It did not become law.
• Tonto Creek bridge (2019): he was part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who supported a $20 million appropriation to build a bridge over Tonto Creek at the Bar X crossing after a deadly flood.
• HB 2133 (2026), age and consent verification for sexual material published online: YES on the conference report vote on June 9, 2026, per Vote Smart.
• SB 1683 (2026), land ownership by foreign adversaries, prohibition: listed as a bill he carried that was signed by the governor in June 2026, per bill tracking summaries. Treat the sponsorship listing as the sourced fact, not a vote tally.
• Budget posture (2025): the Arizona Republic reported he was part of a group of senators, not fully aligned with the House Freedom Caucus, dedicated to pushing a more conservative budget in negotiations.

Affiliation noted in coverage: he and Rep. David Livingston are reported members of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, an organization that opposes same sex marriage and supports anti abortion legislation.

Money: no campaign finance total for Carroll for this cycle was located in the sources retrieved as of October 27, 2026. His Democratic opponent's March 2026 figure is below, and the absence here is a gap in this page, not a claim that he raised nothing.

Controversies: the 2021 abortion bill above is the main policy controversy attached to his name in reputable coverage. No personal scandal was found.

Michael Braun (Democrat)

• Stated priorities (Arizona Republic summary of his platform): oversight of charter schools, water conservation, due process in deportation proceedings, and term and age limits for elected officials.
• Money: campaign finance reports as of March 2026, via See the Money as compiled on Wikipedia: raised $810.00, spent $243.97, cash on hand $706.14. That date is part of the fact. No later total was retrieved.
• Controversies: none found. Biography limits: beyond occupation as an organizer and activist, no detailed biography, education history, or campaign website content was located as of October 27, 2026.

State House: two seats, four candidates, two Republican incumbents

David Livingston (Republican, incumbent)

Record and key fights:

• Division of Developmental Disabilities funding (2025): as Appropriations chairman he was a central figure in the fight over a $122 million supplemental shortfall for the Division of Developmental Disabilities, including the Parents as Paid Caregivers program. Livingston and other Republican budget leaders argued Gov. Hobbs had overspent and pushed for more legislative control and for cutting parent caregiver hours in half, to 20 per week. Parents and advocates said the delay put services for about 60,000 Arizonans at risk. A bipartisan bill to fund the agency passed in April 2025.
• DNA database bill (2019): his bill to create a DNA database drew public outcry. He amended it so it applied only to people licensed to provide direct care in an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
• School salary disclosure bill: a Livingston bill on school salary disclosure was vetoed by Gov. Hobbs, per Arizona Republic coverage summaries. The veto is the verified fact used here; the bill number was not confirmed in the sources retrieved.

Stated priorities (Arizona Republic): education and economic stability.

Controversies, with responses:

• Recall effort (2025): Phoenix mother Jaime Kelley, whose daughter has a severe disability, led a recall campaign against Livingston, Speaker Steve Montenegro, Majority Leader Michael Carbone, and Rep. Matt Gress over the disability funding delay. Her petition said Livingston's inaction created fear and hardship for families. Livingston's stated position in the same fight was that the governor overspent and the program needed legislative controls. Reporting in 2025 said the organizers were not ready to cancel the recalls based only on early meetings, contingent on the final budget.
• 2020 election: after the 2020 presidential election he supported the Stop the Steal movement, which claimed Donald Trump won nationally and in Arizona, per his biographical record. That claim was rejected by courts and by Arizona's own canvass.

Money: no clean cycle total for Livingston was located in the sources retrieved as of October 27, 2026, so none is printed.

Beverly Pingerelli (Republican, incumbent)

Record and key actions:

• HB 2484 (2025), school cell phones: sponsor. The law requires school districts and charter schools to adopt policies limiting student use of wireless devices and restricting social media access during the school day, with exceptions for teacher directed educational use, emergencies, and medical needs. Gov. Hobbs signed it on April 14, 2025, after vetoing a similar Pingerelli bill, HB 2793, in 2024 on the ground that schools were already addressing the issue. Pingerelli on signing: "Arizona classrooms are for learning, not TikTok," and "education requires attention, and attention is exactly what today's students are being robbed of by addictive devices and endless scrolling."

Stated priorities (her campaign, per the Arizona Republic): border security, additional election restrictions, and combating inflation, alongside school choice and parental rights in schools.

Controversies: the Arizona Republic's 2024 candidate guide noted she was among a group of Republican lawmakers who continued to question the results of the 2020 presidential election in the following years. No other controversy of significance was found. Money: no cycle total located in the sources retrieved, so none is printed.

Barbara Fike (Democrat)

• Stated priorities: her slogan is "Common Sense for the Common Good." She emphasizes public schools, water management, and rights for all, per the Arizona Republic. Her earlier campaign materials also listed affordable housing, the state water supply, and education, plus criticism of the school voucher program: she said vouchers do not increase choices for low income parents and that more children could be assured a quality education if voucher funds were more carefully managed.
• Money: no campaign finance totals located as of October 27, 2026. Controversies: none found.

Marc Graham (Democrat)

• Stated priorities (Arizona Republic summary): make gerrymandering illegal, create universal health care, ban stock trading among politicians, establish one year of paid maternity leave, and place limits on CEO and executive compensation.
• Money: no campaign finance totals located as of October 27, 2026. Controversies: none found. His platform is the most explicitly progressive in this district's fields, and it is running in a district registered 48 percent Republican; that mismatch is the electoral fact of his candidacy, stated without a prediction.