Maricopa county is home to America’s hottest city, where deaths from the heat are weighing on voters’ minds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/01/climate-change-arizona-us-election-2020

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Even now, Ivan Moore can’t think why his father didn’t didn’t tell anyone that the air conditioning in their house was busted. “I honestly don’t know what was going through his mind,” he said.

That week three years ago, temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona were forecasted to top 115F (46C). Moore, his wife and two children went to the mountains for a camping trip, and his dad Gene, stayed behind. A few days later, Gene died.

The air conditioning had been blowing…