Tara Kavaler
Arizona Republic
Conor O’Callaghan is the latest candidate to enter the crowded Democratic primary for Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.
The seat is held by Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and the 2024 race in the district is expected to be one of the most competitive congressional contests in the state.
O’Callaghan, 40, lives in the DC Ranch area of Scottsdale. He immigrated to the U.S. when he was 4 years old and graduated from Chaparral High School, where he was a state champion runner.
O’Callaghan now works in finance as a managing director at BTIG.
This is his first run for public office. O’Callaghan said that a sense of service was instilled in him by his father, who worked as a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and who held a public post during Democratic Gov. Rose Mofford’s administration.
O’Callaghan said that he is running for Congress because he believes he is the most electable candidate.
“So everybody keeps saying that this seat is super … flippable … but it’s the same rhetoric that we’ve been hearing for the last three or four cycles at this point,” O’Callaghan told The Arizona Republic in an interview. “And when I look at the people that are in the race, I don’t believe that the winning candidate is already in the race or I wouldn’t run.
