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The daughter of Rep. Andy Biggs, one of Donald Trump’s biggest congressional cheerleaders, is running for a seat in the Arizona Senate. And to hear her tell it, you shouldn’t vote for her because she’s a woman.
On June 18, Mylie Biggs filed a statement of interest to run for the Gilbert-based state senate seat that Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is vacating to run for attorney general. Biggs is running on a slate with current Legislative District 14 representatives Khyl Powell and Laurin Hendrix. Biggs’ father, who is now running for governor, also represented the district for 14 years before winning a seat in Congress.
At 25 years old, Biggs just clears Arizona’s age requirement to run for a legislative office. Despite her youth, though, Biggs has already managed to contradict the essence of her nascent venture into politics.
Exactly one year ago, Biggs appeared on a little-known East Valley-based podcast called The Matty McCurdy Program. During that conversation, Biggs revealed a belief that is diametrically opposed to her own candidacy: that women should not hold political office.
“Honestly, I don’t know if I would vote for any female. I don’t know if females should be in office,” Biggs told McCurdy and an unknown third person on the Aug. 6, 2024, episode, laughing about the extreme take. If anyone thought it was a joke, Biggs was sure to clear it up that she wasn’t kidding.
“There are a lot of really good women in office, I’m not trying to hate on anyone — like, some really good congresswomen,” Biggs added. “Yeah, I don’t think women should hold office in general. That’s my position. That’s my stance. I think women should run the home.”
Biggs did not respond to questions from Phoenix New Times about her comments, nor did Hendrix. After this story published, Powell told New Times that "I know Mylie and have complete trust in her."
Biggs, who graduated last year from the University of Arizona with a degree in political science, didn’t stop there. Despite working as an associate of government affairs for the right-wing Arizona Free Enterprise Club, Biggs expressed her concerns with how “modern feminism” has changed society — “starting with women's right to vote.”
“I hate a 9-to-5 schedule,” Biggs said. “I get home and I don’t want to do anything else. Like, women aren’t built for this. I just want to be a wife. I just want to be a mom.”
Biggs returned to McCurdy’s show in December to analyze the results of the 2024 election. Discussing electoral maps, she again questioned the wisdom of women voting.
“Have you seen ones where it’s like, if women were the only ones to vote, what it would look like and it’s literally like 80% blue," Biggs said with a laugh. "It’s like, ‘Whoa. Repeal the 19th Amendment.’”
Mylie Biggs has campaigned alongside her father, Rep. Andy Biggs, who is running for governor in 2026.
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Despite her once-expressed aversions to civil liberties for women, when Biggs announced her candidacy on social media, she touted how her parents “taught me to love my country, the Constitution, and to value my freedoms.”“I’ve watched so many good people in my life serve this country in the military and in public office,” she wrote. “I too seek to serve.”
Since that announcement, little else has happened with Biggs’ campaign. Biggs still has not filed a campaign finance report, even though the report for the second quarter of 2025 was due on July 21. Her candidate profile on the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office shows she has not raised any money yet.
Even as she complained that “women aren’t built” to work during her podcast appearance, Biggs also said she was interested in working in the U.S. Foreign Service after serving her Mormon mission in Brazil. Biggs minored in Portuguese in college, though she evidenced little understanding of South America’s biggest country on her podcast appearances. “I think the majority is inhabited,” she said on the podcast. In reality, 87% of Brazilians live in the country’s urban areas, which account for about 0.3% of its landmass.
Unsurprisingly, Biggs is a fan of her father. She credited his 2017 election to the House of Representatives to “divine intervention” after he won the Republican primary by just 17 votes. “It was like dang, OK — he’s meant to do this,” the younger Biggs said. “He truly wants to follow the Constitution — he knows the Constitution like the back of his hand.”
Reasonable minds might dispute that point. Biggs is known for voting against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential contest and has recently rubber-stamped many of Trump’s most obvious constitutional violations, including Trump's attempt to cancel birthright citizenship.
More recently, Biggs voted against demanding the release of investigative files related to the child sex ring run by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein despite having previously pressed for their publication. His tune on that issue changed once reporters revealed that Trump’s name is in them.
When it comes to her father’s penchant for espousing conspiracy theories — including about massive election fraud, QAnon and an all-powerful deep state cabal — the Biggs apple apparently didn’t fall far from the Biggs tree. The younger Biggs said as much during one podcast appearance, although she tantalizingly stopped before elaborating further.
“I love the conspiracies,” Biggs said. “Don’t get me started on 9/11.”
