Arizona gubernatorial campaigner Katie Hobbs hosts a roundtable successful Phoenix connected Sept. 19, 2022. | AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has been elected governor, becoming the latest Democrat to prevail successful a authorities that has gone from coagulated reddish to battleground successful caller years.
Hobbs defeated Republican Kari Lake, a erstwhile section TV quality anchor who, during the campaign, would not commit to accepting the results of her race, arsenic she repeated Donald Trump’s mendacious assertion that the 2020 predetermination was rigged.
Hobbs volition beryllium the archetypal Democrat to service arsenic Arizona’s main enforcement since Janet Napolitano near bureau to service arsenic President Barack Obama’s DHS caput successful 2009.
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