How to watch the debate between Arizona gubernatorial candidates Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake?I In your imagination, because evidently it won’t take place anywhere else.
By Bill Goodykoontz || Arizona Republic
How to watch the debate between Arizona gubernatorial candidates Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake?I In your imagination, because evidently it won’t take place anywhere else.
Hobbs, the Democratic candidate, declined an invitation from the Citizens Clean Election Commission to face Lake, a Republican, in a televised debate. So instead of a back-and-forth between candidates, Ted Simons will instead host a one-on-one interview with Lake at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, on Arizona PBS. The commission rejected a proposal from the Hobbs campaign for separate interviews.
Too bad.
Hobbs has said that “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.”
If the debate among Republican candidates for governor in June was any indication, Hobbs is probably right.
Still.
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Lake, for her part, has branded Hobbs a coward for not debating. And Hobbs’ refusal will dog her for the duration of the campaign. For instance, a profile of Lake in the Atlantic — hardly a bastion of conservative politics — includes this: “Katie Hobbs, is a remarkably dull candidate who has refused to debate Lake. … That refusal might be a gift.”
