According to his campaign website, Carroll was born in Chicago and later moved to Arizona, becoming involved with the
Arizona Republican Party, becoming a
precinct captain and
precinct committeeman. He describes himself as a "Christian constitutional conservative."
Elections to the state legislature Carroll was first elected to the
Arizona House of Representatives for Legislative District (LD) 22 in 2018. The seat had recently been vacated by
Phil Lovas, who resigned to accept a position in the
Trump administration; the
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appointed
Ben Toma to fill the vacancy, for the remainder of Lovas's term. In the 2017 Republican
primary election, Carroll, then a Republican precinct committeeman, ran against Toma, business owner and former
Peoria Unified School District member Matt Bullock, and former
Maricopa County Community College District member John Heep. Toma and Carroll won the Republican primary and advanced to the general election, Toma and Carroll were both reelected in 2020. In the
post-2020 redistricting cycle, Carroll and Toma, along with fellow Republican state Representative
Beverly Pingerelli and state Senator
David Livingston, were drawn into LD 28, which includes the northwest
Valley of the Sun. However, a high-profile primary battle among incumbents was avoided, because Toma moved to District 27, and Carroll had already declared his candidacy for the
Arizona State Senate seat for LD 28, which encompasses
Sun City,
Sun City West, much of
Peoria and portions of
north Phoenix. and won the November 2022 election with 61.8% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee David Sandoval, who won 38.2% of the vote.
Tenure in office Carroll is part of a group of
far-right, self-identified
Christian conservative lawmakers in Arizona. Along with fellow Republican
David Livingston, he is a member of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, an organization founded by
Jason Rapert in 2019 that opposes
same-sex marriage and supports
anti-abortion legislation. In 2021, Carroll was among a group of state House Republicans to introduce legislation (House Bill 2650) to classify abortion as "1st-degree premeditated murder" and force local prosecutors to file charges against women who receive abortions and doctors who provide abortions. Democrats and
abortion rights groups denounced the measure as extreme. After President
Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection in November 2020, Carroll was among the Republicans who denied or questioned Trump's election loss, and supported Trump's
attempts to subvert the election results and remain in power. In December 2020, he signed onto an
amicus brief supporting the
State of Texas's failed bid to overturn the election. In 2023, Carroll sponsored legislation to purge the Arizona voter rolls every decade beginning in 2031, canceling the voter registration of all of the state's registered voters (which numbered 4.2 million on 2023) every ten years, forcing each to re-register. His proposal (Senate Bill 1566) was criticized by the
Arizona Association of Counties, which noted that it would violate the
National Voter Registration Act. Carroll's bill passed the Elections Committee on a party-line vote, although it was denounced by Democrats and some Republicans. In 2022 and 2023, Carroll introduced legislation to bar the State of Arizona from contracting with any business that "discriminates" against firearm manufacturers or the
National Rifle Association of America. Carroll introduced the bill, based on a nearly identical measure enacted in
Texas, that targeted banks that declined to take gun manufacturers on as clients following
shooting massacres. The
Arizona Association of Counties and the Arizona Bankers Association opposed Carroll's bill. ==Personal life==