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Ruben Gallego: “Sheriff Joe Pyle lost his 2016 election because of the power…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Senator Gallego Gives Remarks at the NALEO Annual Conference 2026 — July 15, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 08:28

He got his name because he was racially profiling Latinos. And we pushed back. We tore down the old school methods of pushing back. We ran people and we won. And Sheriff Joe Pyle lost his 2016 election because of the power of the Latino vote. Many years later, with many of my friends, that helped me in that first race to push out Sheriff Jorda Pyo, I found myself to be the first Latino senator in the history of Arizona. (08:28–08:35)

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Asserts that the Latino vote was instrumental in Sheriff Joe Arpaio losing the 2016 election.

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