campaigning is a hard job this year’s unrelenting heat has made it even more difficult complicating classic voter Outreach strategies that involveed being outside for hours in the swing states of Arizona and Nevada which have Su are primaries candidates on the ballot have had no choice but to adapt to record heat but those who are best able to work in spite of high temperatures can gain an edge with voters in a year when the slimmest margin matters nevadans and arizonans have outsized influence over which party will control Congress and the white house campaigns in the southwest are navigating high heat by visiting voters at home during the cooler parts of the day such as the mornings and early evenings door knockers bring lots of water and often wear hats and long sleeves to protect from sunburns some us neck fans are cooling vests which can hold multiple ice packs others take breaks in their cars with the AC on this year Phoenix at 100 straight days with at least 100Β° temperatures the campaign for Yas Ansari who narrowly won her July primary race for Arizona’s District 3 congressional seat put together a memo with tips on how to best avoid heat illness on the job that said there are ways to avoid the heat entirely while comp piging organizers make phone calls write postcards or host donation drives via Zoom