Ariz. Democratic governor candidate Hobbs reports break-in at campaign office - The Washington Post

Phoenix constabulary confirmed they responded to a burglary telephone astatine Hobbs’s run bureau connected Tuesday day and that unspecified items were taken during the night. Detectives were checking information cameras to effort to place the suspect, constabulary spokesperson Phil Krynsky said. In surveillance images obtained from the Hobbs run by The Washington Post, a young antheral wearing shorts and a greenish T-shirt tin beryllium seen wrong the building.

Phoenix constabulary did not place the idiosyncratic arrested and said they would merchandise much accusation aboriginal Thursday.

“Secretary Hobbs and her unit person faced hundreds of decease threats and threats of unit implicit the people of this campaign. Throughout this race, we person been wide that the information of our unit and of the Secretary is our fig 1 priority,” Hobbs run manager Nicole DeMont said successful a connection precocious Wednesday.

“Let’s beryllium clear: for astir 2 years Kari Lake and her allies person been spreading unsafe misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they spot fit,” DeMont added. “The threats against Arizonans attempting to workout their law rights and their attacks connected elected officials are the nonstop effect of a concerted run of lies and intimidation.”

Lake told CNN that the Hobbs campaign’s connection was “absolutely absurd.”

“And are you guys buying that? Are you truly buying that? Because this sounds similar a Jussie Smollett portion two,” Lake told CNN, referring to the actor who was recovered blameworthy of falsely reporting a hatred crime. “She’s trying to deflect from her ain abysmal run and the information that you know, cipher adjacent knows wherever her run bureau is.”

Lake and Hobbs person been engaged successful a bitter run for governor, and polls person shown the 2 locked successful a choky race. Lake, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, has embraced and dispersed the erstwhile president’s mendacious claims that the 2020 statesmanlike election was stolen. Trump and his allies, including Lake, person particularly questioned the results successful Arizona, wherever Joe Biden narrowly defeated him — the archetypal clip a Democrat took the authorities since 1996.

As caput of state, Hobbs defended the predetermination process successful Arizona arsenic the idiosyncratic successful complaint of certifying Biden’s triumph successful 2020. She has called Lake a menace to ideology and earlier this period referred an incidental of alleged elector intimidation to the U.S. Justice Department and the Arizona lawyer general.

“There’s a radical of radical hanging retired adjacent the ballot dropbox filming and photographing my woman and I arsenic we approached the dropbox and accusing america of being a mule,” said the report, which was written by a elector successful the Phoenix suburbs and obtained by The Post. “They took … photographs of our licence sheet and of america and past followed america retired the parking batch successful 1 of their cars continuing to film.”

While Hobbs has defended the usage of driblet boxes arsenic a harmless and unafraid mode to guarantee ballot access, Lake has encouraged doubts and expressed enactment for national surveillance.

In July, Lake posted connected Twitter a photograph of a driblet container she said was successful bluish Arizona. “Potential Mules beware: we are watching driblet boxes passim the state,” she said. “Smile … you mightiness beryllium connected camera!”

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez contributed to this report.