Okay, I was wrong. Katie Hobbs's strategy of avoiding TV debates with Kari Lake in the Arizona gubernatorial election and campaigning on a retail-politics level in Maricopa County (where a majority of Arizona residents live) paid off. Hobbs (below) is going to be the twenty-fourth governor of Arizona - the first Democrat to be elected to the office since Janet Napolitano was re-elected governor in 2006.
Arizonans wanted a problem solver, not a problem causer. They looked at Kari Lake and saw a TV personality who was more interested in being a star than in being a leader. The soft focus, the perfect lighting, the whole showmanship of Lake's image - voters saw through the sham and saw the person behind the persona. Once seen as a broadcast journalist, she'd long since violated the ethics of journalism by voicing incendiary comments and opinions about the very stories she was supposed to objectively cover even before she quit the news business and got into politics. She even shared COVID misinformation on Twitter and Facebook less than a year before she left her job as the anchorwoman for KSAZ-TV's evening newscast.
Lake is expected to contest the results, and she's likely to get the same result from a recount that Donald Trump got from an Arizona - a loss. Good riddance to her.
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