Our View: What Arizona has to lose if it votes Trump

• Donald Trump keeps trying to close the deal with Arizona
• Even a red, red state has serious doubts about this candidate
• Lack of qualifications or conservative credentials are impossible to ignore

Donald Trump’s sixth visit to Arizona was an attempt to close a deal that would have been sealed long ago for any other Republican presidential candidate.

Trump’s obvious lack of qualifications and his utter lack of earned conservative credentials made it necessary for him to seek support once again in a rock-solid Republican state – a state that is glowing purple because of him.

His supporters were animated after a warm-up show by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who institutionalized racial profiling against one-third of the state’s population.

It was not a call to our better nature.

Trump fed the crowd the usual promises, the usual scapegoating, the usual fear mongering.

What does Arizona have to lose? Plenty

He painted the usual grim picture of the United States as a nation that has become a “banana republic,” where nothing is working and only he can fix it.

His pitch to voters: “What the hell do you have to lose?”

We’d say plenty.

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He’d make America a global pariah if he tried to make good on his preening, prancing promises to be the bully on the international playground.

As usual, he was short on specifics: Build the wall and make Mexico pay for it. Bring back jobs. Renegotiate every trade deal – including NAFTA, which has brought significant economic benefits to Arizona.

Trump repeats tired 'open borders' myth

As usual, he blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for every problem foreign and domestic.

His gross generalities included the repeated -- and factually incorrect -- assertion that Hillary Clinton wants open borders. He called her the “ringleader of a criminal enterprise.”

He characterized the media as “our enemies.”

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Mexico, which has been the target of Trump tirades, has smarter leaders than the United States, he said.

Nevertheless, he will bring Mexico to heel and make them pay for the wall. He can do it, he says. On Day One.

Or maybe that happens on Day Two. His Day One list is very long and very unrealistic.

But his fans cheered. And they will vote.

More reasons to vote 'no' on Trump

Keeping Trump from the White House will be up to those whose doubts about America’s first reality-TV presidential candidate are fed by Trump’s own demeanor.

Consider how he took Hillary Clinton’s bait and went after former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, demonstrating again the misogyny that has turned so many women voters against him.

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In doing so, Trump also demonstrated to any world leader watching (and they all are) just how easy it is to get under his skin and utterly distract him. What fun our real enemies would have baiting President Trump.

There was also the news over the weekend that Trump likely hasn’t paid taxes for years, something he does not deny. In fact, he used it to attack Clinton for not fixing the tax system while in the Senate. He says he’ll fix it, though. Not sure if this happens on Day One or Two.

Yet he continues to show contempt for the American people by refusing to release his tax returns.

Trump overshadows Pence's positive nature

Pundits were suggesting Trump’s vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence might restore a little dignity to the campaign during the Tuesday night debate with Hillary Clinton’s VP Tim Kaine.

Trump’s performance in Prescott overshadowed anything rational Pence might have contributed.

As the guy at the top of the ticket continued his clumsy courtship of Arizona, the state that any qualified Republican presidential candidate could have taken for granted remains in play precisely because Trump is Trump.