BREAKING: Katie Hobbs defeats Kari Lake to become Arizona's fifth female governor. Read more at
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs speaks during an election night watch party at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel on Nov. 8, 2022.Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Democratic election chief who built a national profile by standing up to false claims about the 2020 presidential election, has won the state’s race for governor.
With Hobbs’ win, Arizonans followed voters in other battleground states who rejected gubernatorial candidates who pushed false claims about election results. That course echoed former President Donald Trump’s slow comeback against Joe Biden as votes were counted in 2020. Just like Trump, however, Lake ultimately was not able to surpass the Democrat., after serving in the Arizona Legislature for eight years. As secretary of state, she oversaw elections and some business records. In that post, she also defended Biden’s win in the face of Trump’s unprecedented efforts to remain in power, earning herself a national profile while doing so.
But the hallmark of her pitch to Arizonans was that Hobbs would defend democracy, and she painted Lake as too extreme for her unwillingness to say she would accept defeat and for her past comments that she would not have certified Biden’s 2020 win. Whether Lake will concede to Hobbs is unknown. The choice before Arizonans was not Republican or Democrat, but “sanity versus chaos,” Hobbs repeated along the campaign trail.
While the race echoed national themes, with Lake hammering on border security, inflation and blasting Hobbs for refusing to debate her, it was also dynamic in other ways. too, both from her allegiance to Trump and how much she leaned on her nearly three-decade career as a television anchor to present herself to voters on social media and along the campaign trail. Sen.
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