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The district

Legislative District 14 is Gilbert. Its partisan baseline is Republican +18.3 in the 2024 presidential vote. Three seats are at stake: one state Senate seat and two state House seats, with voters choosing two House members on a vote-for-two ballot.

The Senate seat is open: incumbent Warren Petersen (R), the Senate President, is running for Attorney General instead. In the House, one Republican incumbent is renominated and the other retired; Democrats field a Senate nominee and only one House nominee for two seats.

The Senate race

In 2024, Petersen won 60.1%–39.9% over Elizabeth Brown.

Mylie Biggs (R). Biggs is a conservative political activist and the daughter of U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs. She won the Republican primary with 21,255 votes and had raised $7,313 as of March 2026.

The central documented fact of this race is her own prior statement about women in office. KJZZ reported on August 7, 2025 that Biggs had previously said women should not hold public office, and that she was running anyway. The underlying reporting was by the Phoenix New Times (August 6, 2025), which quoted her August 6, 2024 appearance on The Matty McCurdy Program. Her exact reported words were:

> "Honestly, I don't know if I would vote for any female. I don't know if females should be in office."

> "I don't think women should hold office, in general. Like, it's a man's position. That's my stance. I think women should, you know, run the home."

The New Times also reported a fuller version of the same statement: "There are a lot of really good women in office, I'm not trying to hate on anyone — like, some really good congresswomen. Yeah, I don't think women should hold office in general. That's my position. That's my stance. I think women should run the home."

On response: the Phoenix New Times reported that Biggs did not respond to its questions about her comments. No response from Biggs to that reporting was located in the sources verified for this piece.

Steelmanning her candidacy honestly: Biggs won a contested-party nomination decisively with 21,255 primary votes in a strongly Republican district, she comes from a prominent Arizona conservative family, and voters who share her traditionalist views on family roles have a candidate who states those views openly rather than hiding them. That is the best case, and it does not answer the statement itself.

Pros: A decisive primary win in an R+18.3 district; openly stated views voters can judge directly. Cons: Her documented statement is not a gaffe about an opponent or a policy dispute — it is a stated position that women, as a class, should not hold the very office she seeks. That conflicts directly with this publication's values: we support freedom and equal standing under the Constitution, and a candidate on record against women holding office asks half the district to vote for their own exclusion from it. The flaw, plainly: A proven, documented, personal-conduct flaw — her own words, on a recorded podcast, never answered in the reporting we could verify. This is demonstrated conduct, not an unproven accusation.

Stephanie Walsh (D). Walsh is an engineer. She won the Democratic primary with 13,317 votes and had raised $8,175 as of March 2026.

Her best honest case: she is a professionally credentialed nominee — an engineer — offering Gilbert voters an alternative in a district where the Republican nominee carries the documented flaw above, and her primary vote shows a real Democratic base in the district.

Pros: A credentialed professional nominee with a solid primary performance. Cons: She runs as a party-line Democrat with no Manchin-test break located, in an R+18.3 district. In the Senate, her organizing vote would be heavy. The flaw, plainly: Enabler class, not extremist — a reliable party-line vote, which is the standing reason the exception for a Democrat is not earned here.

The House race

Laurin Hendrix (R), incumbent, was renominated with 15,868 primary votes (38.09%). Khyl Powell (R) retired in March 2026 for health reasons. The second Republican nominee is Tyler Farnsworth (R), with 17,364 votes (41.68%) — the top Republican primary finisher.

Pros: Hendrix is a renominated incumbent; Farnsworth led the Republican primary field. Cons: No proven in-service flaw meeting this publication's standard was located for either in the compiled record. Farnsworth has no legislative record in this file. The flaw, plainly: None proven was located for either nominee in the compiled record.

Mary Rose (D) is the sole Democratic nominee, with 13,281 primary votes — only one Democrat for two seats.

Her best honest case: a five-figure primary vote in a Republican district, giving Democratic voters a House voice to contest for.

Pros: A real primary showing as the lone Democratic nominee. Cons: A party-line Democrat with no Manchin-test break located. The flaw, plainly: Enabler class, not extremist.

OUR CALL

Senate — NO endorsement, NO lean. This is the rare race where we withhold even a lean from both sides, and we say why plainly. Biggs's documented statement that women should not hold office conflicts with this publication's values directly — it is proven conduct in her own words, and it prices heavily. Walsh is a party-line Democrat in an R+18.3 district with no Manchin exception earned, and her Senate organizing vote would carry heavy weight. A flawed Republican does not automatically transfer our call to a Democrat who has not earned the exception, and a lean toward Biggs would require us to look past a flaw we have just printed in her own words. Neither earns the call, in either direction.

House — We endorse Laurin Hendrix and Tyler Farnsworth — Farnsworth as unproven, and on watch. Hendrix is the renominated incumbent with no proven flaw located. Farnsworth carries the unproven form expressly: no legislative record in this file, endorsed on the primary result and party program, and watched closely in a first term. The lone Democratic nominee is enabler-class with no exception earned, and House caucus math is lighter in any event.

For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage on our website.

Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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