Posted on 10/16/2022 10:51:37 AM PDT by bitt
There’s a reason that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs is not doing well in Arizona. She’s running away from debating her Republican opponent, Kari Lake. When asked about it, she can’t even give any real reason for avoiding debating her, as we reported.
Hobbs went on CNN on Sunday with Dana Bash. Bash asked about why she refused to debate, noting that she, Bash, just spoke to Lake.
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“She just answered my questions for a lot of minutes. A lot of Democrats are questioning your decision.” If she’s as “dangerous to democracy” as Hobbs claims, Bash asked, why wasn’t she debating her?
Hobbs said, “That’s exactly what I am doing right now.”
No, it’s demonstrably not what you’re doing now. She’s running away from debate because she’s worried it may be challenging. Kari Lake may come back at her and point out all the flaws in what she says– versus CNN, which probably wouldn’t. She wants a safer space from which to try to buffalo people and limit the damage. But unfortunately for her, it still looked like she was ducking the debate.
Hobbs also got into trouble on abortion, with a question that wasn’t particularly hard. Assuming you wanted the public to know your true position.
Listen as Bash tries to ask Hobbs what her position is on abortion, and if she supports any limits at all; she refuses to say, thereby taking the most extreme position.
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“I don’t want to talk politics with anyone who I don’t know”says Katie Hobbs to the very polite Project Veritas reporter. I interpret this to mean …. Anyone who won’t help her cause as will everyone in the disinformation media.
I am saying that Kari WIIL RUN her state as DeSantis runs his stateYou of course don't know that.
The fact that women are controlled by their emotions and not logic changes your theory...period.
We must not allow skittish Democrats to redefine "debating" as appearing separately on the same show with the same interviewer.
As the author points out, Lake does not have the opportunity to directly challenge Hobbs. Hobbs is relying on the interviewer to not probe too deeply into her positions, something which Lake would do relentlessly on a debate stage.
Conversely, Hobbs knows that she could never effectively challenge Lake in-kind, making her look weak and unassertive compared to Lake.
This is why Hobbs prefers to have a staged, seated and favorably lighted split-frame discussion with a friendly moderator, than be seen standing side-by-side with Lake on a debate stage.
-PJ
Which suggests she know that the “fix” is in. Why look like the loser you are when you can hide knowing the ballot stuffers have your back?
C'mon, after the first 4 years of Trump, anyone capable of critical thought fully understands who is who...One need not be a professional career politician to figure that out. Thanks to Trump, everyone knows D.C. jammed with corrupt career politicians.
LOL. I've got to remember that! 👍
she’s very sharp and quick-witted. All those years of true journalism where you have to ask relevant follow-up questions gave her the edge in these issues.
Hpbbs know Lake is SMARTER than her, and well-prepared. All those years of doing nothing but vote for every Brandon bill is coming back to bite.
I think you interpret this correctly, Freee-dame.
“I will debate you on a stage. I will debate you in a parking lot. I will debate in a library. I will debate you in a bar. I will debate you in a car. I will debate you on CNN. I will debate you on MSNBC. I’ll even, I’ll even debate you on ‘The View,’ and let Joy Behar and Whoppi ask the questions. But show some courage!”Kati Hobbs won't do it because Hobbs is a lying, abortion-murdering, traitorous Demonicrat.
Bkmk
She missed the needed, “I will debate you anywhere, Sam I am!”
Could always use a little more. Our side is more grass roots than big money like the out of state dem donors.
They saw the results of a very rigged election. Biden didn't win anything.
Kari fought back as strong as she could and came out the clear winner between the two.
Hobbs is pathetic and a terrible candidate with nothing to run on at all.She had no good answer as to why she would not debate kari and it showed big time.
Yes...but they didn’t have the CHEAT in place.
Twitter took it down... no changes, completely partisan. I can't wait for Musk to sweep the dirt out of that place. OTOH, it looks like he got completely snookered into buying a pig in a poke. Twitter might be on the down side.
Yes. It is who they are. We all know it now if we didn’t before...
Hobbs is the perfect example of a San Francisco democRAT. Many years ago a San Francisco democRAT actually told the truth: ‘if we don’t win, we don’t eat.’ Getting up every day and working for a living is anathema to them. Sacrifice, saving money, doing without. I worked in vocational training for many decades. I cannot tell you how many times I witnessed the American dream in action for legal immigrants. Perhaps the first or second generation is not successful in a material sense. However, they laid the foundation for future generations to thrive, and were incredible role models for families and neighbors.
Even the so-called ‘poor’ in America live a life of luxury compared with most others in the world. Running water, hot running water, clean water, abundant inexpensive energy (except for Kalifornia).
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