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Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs Won’t Debate Republican Kari Lake for Governor’s Race
Breitbart ^ | 12 Sep 2022 | NICK GILBERTSON

Posted on 09/12/2022 1:10:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Democrat Katie Hobbs’s campaign for Arizona governor announced Sunday that she would not debate her Republican opponent Kari Lake.

Hobbs’s campaign manager, Nicole DeMont, stated that the Democrat would not share the stage with a “conspiracy theorist” after the campaign faced mounting pressure to debate from Arizona’s Clean Elections Commission (CEC).

“Unfortunately, debating a conspiracy theorist like Kari Lake – whose entire campaign platform is to cause enormous chaos and make Arizona the subject of national ridicule – would only lead to constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name-calling,” DeMont said in a statement.

She noted that Hobbs, who is Arizona’s secretary of state, “remains willing and eager to participate in a town hall style event.”

.@katiehobbs says no for the second and final time to a debate with @KariLake. How pathetic and weak. She refused to debate her Democratic opponent in the primary as well. Nobody this weak can lead a shift at McDonald’s let alone lead Arizona. pic.twitter.com/IHmAHyHgvw

— Garret Lewis (@GarretLewis) September 11, 2022

Ladies and gentlemen,

The @azdemparty is proud to present its nominee for Governor, @katiehobbs. pic.twitter.com/D2ryKkCJEl

— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) September 11, 2022

On Thursday, Hobbs, who in 2017 said “neo-nazi[s]” make up former President Donald Trump’s base of supporters, and her team proposed a town hall-style event in lieu of debate. Each candidate would answer questions separately under the proposal. The CEC rejected the format and nudged the Hobbs campaign to debate Lake, giving the campaigns a week to hammer out details. DeMont’s statement came with four days left to reach a compromise.

During their virtual meeting Thursday, CEC Chairman Damon Mayer asked DeMont if there was “any scenario in which Secretary Hobbs


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“So we’ve got a couple empty chairs up here, and every time you look at a chair, just think we should be filling that with our opponent here on the stage. But I digress,” she added.

1 posted on 09/12/2022 1:10:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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She can simply take a lid in the basement and let Dominion take care of the rest


2 posted on 09/12/2022 1:17:00 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: SoConPubbie

Lake need a to hammer home that Hobbs treats her as illegitimate because she believes Arizonans who don’t think in lockstep with the radical left are illegitimate. Be loud and clear “Arizonans who don’t want to become California, it’s not me she hates, it’s you. I am just in the way”


3 posted on 09/12/2022 2:14:01 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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This is going to become a national Democrat Party strategy.

First Hobbs, then Fetterman, then any other Democrat who's behind in the polls. They will say that they don't want to legitimize semi-fascists by sharing the same stage with them and give them a microphone to spread their anti-American hate.

Will Mark Kelly be next? Raphael Warnock? Josh Shapiro?

-PJ

4 posted on 09/12/2022 2:26:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SoConPubbie

she should put a cat on the empty chair


5 posted on 09/12/2022 2:29:55 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Start referring to her as “California Karen” Hobbes in a couple ads and she’ll take notice.


6 posted on 09/12/2022 2:43:56 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: SoConPubbie

Is this the same dem politician that was caught in a menage a trois with a staffer? By pics that she posted?

And she still thinks she can be in politics?


7 posted on 09/12/2022 7:35:26 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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would only lead to constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name-calling

So apparently "conspiracy theorist" is adult name-calling.

8 posted on 09/12/2022 7:56:15 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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