Here's a list of all Donald Trump's visits to Arizona during his political career

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For years, Arizona has been one of former President Donald Trump's favorite spots to campaign. Here's a rundown of his visits.

2016 campaign

July 11, 2015: Eventual Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump makes his first stop in Phoenix, focusing on immigration and helping set the tone for his upstart campaign.

Dec. 16: Trump packs the airport in Mesa a day after one of the Republican debates.

March 19, 2016: Protesters couldn’t stop Trump from drawing thousands to a raucous rally in Fountain Hills the weekend before the state’s presidential primary. He also stopped in Tucson.

June 18: Trump packs the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on a blistering summer day.

Aug. 31: Trump outlines his hard-line plans for dealing with immigration and border security in a widely anticipated speech in Phoenix. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was on hand for the event.

Oct. 4: Trump tries to energize his conservative base at a stop in Prescott Valley.

Oct. 29: Trump schedules a record-breaking seventh Arizona stop in a visit to the Phoenix Convention Center.

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2020 campaign

Feb. 19, 2020: President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, touting the national economy.

May 5: Trump tours a Phoenix Honeywell facility making respirator masks to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and discusses aid to Native Americans.

June 23: Trump addresses a church full of mostly maskless young people in Phoenix amid a pandemic that followed his disastrous, half-empty rally in Tulsa days earlier. He visited the border wall in Yuma earlier in the day.

Aug. 18: Trump visits Yuma during the Democratic National Convention to highlight his record on building a border wall and attack his Democratic opponent’s ambitions on immigration.

Sept. 14: Trump holds a roundtable event with a group called Latinos for Trump at the Arizona Grand Resort in an effort to pull in support with a demographic that could be key to carrying the swing state.

Oct. 19: On a day overshadowed by his private insults for epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, Trump targets his base in a hangar visit to Prescott and seeks to boost GOP turnout in a Tucson hangar stop.

Oct. 28: On a day that broke the state’s record for presidential-ticket visits, Trump held rallies in Bullhead City and Goodyear.

Post presidency

July 24, 2021: Trump attends a Turning Point Action rally in Phoenix and predicts the ongoing ballot review would vindicate his claims of a stolen election.

Jan. 17, 2022: Trump packs 15,000 into a rally in Florence to hear him lament a stolen election, rip President Joe Biden and tease at another run.

July 22: Trump boosted his Republican picks ahead of the August primary at an event in Prescott Valley. It dwarfed events held the same day involving Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Oct. 9: In his third Arizona visit of the year, Trump urged Republicans to support Kari Lake, Blake Masters and the rest of his GOP picks in the midterm elections during a rally in Mesa.

2024 campaign

Jan. 26: The Arizona Republican Party announces Trump will appear at the party's Freedom Fest event Jan. 26 at Dream City Church in Phoenix.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Donald Trump's visits to Arizona during his political career