As a Zonie, I am sorry it happened, but he is not done for, there other elections looming when more people turnout.
Entire neighborhoods that were once working class Mormons have had their one time residents displaced by illegal aliens, some living 10 -20 people to a house. It's really frightening what is happening to the demographics of that community. Huge areas are now Barrios and entire strip malls cater primarily to non English speaking Hispanic illegal aliens.
White flight from the district is accelerating, which is killing the tax base as illegals on welfare take over. Most of the previous middle class Mormon residents have been displaced to new housing developments in east Mesa and have abandoned the area to illegals.
The school system in his district has effectively been destroyed by militant non assimilationist Hispanic activists and Spanish is now the de facto language in many primary schools
Pearce is life long resident of this Mesa district that has been at ground zero of the illegal flood and he has seen the destruction it has caused to his once “Leave it to Beaver” middle class Mormon neighborhood and district.
He has been fighting a rear guard action to prevent a take over of the rest of the state, but it looks like the demographics of his district have become so unfavorable that he is in a Bob Dornan like situation.
Arizona is similar to where California was 15 years ago - at a demographic tipping point due to illegal immigration.