Last Updated on 11/16/2022 by てんしょく飯
In the Arizona gubernatorial race that coincided with the U.S. midterm elections, Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs was assured of victory, narrowly defeating Republican candidate Carrie Lake, who was endorsed by former President Trump.
Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs is assured of victory.
According to the Associated Press, Hobbs had 50.41% of the vote as of 7:20 p.m. on November 14, when 98% of the ballots had opened, ahead of Lake’s 49.59%. In Arizona, a heated race had been predicted in advance, but the results were finally known six days after the 8th day of voting.
In Arizona, Republican Governor Doug Ducey, who is unable to run again due to term limits, endorsed Lake, another Republican candidate, and Secretary of State Hobbs, a Democrat, ran as his opponent.
This election was the first time that two women were candidates of major political parties in an Arizona gubernatorial election.
In addition to candidate Hobbs, other midterm elections in Arizona this year have been won by Democrats. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly won reelection over Republican Blake Masters, and Democrat Adrian Fontes won the race to replace Hobbs as secretary of state over Republican Mark Finchem.
The state attorney general race, however, has yet to produce results, with Democrat Chris Mays narrowly leading Republican Abraham Hamadeh.
Arizona used to be a Republican stronghold, but Democrats continue to make strides, with President Biden narrowly winning the 2020 presidential election.
Lake was recognized as one of the candidates supporting the Trump conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, along with Doug Mastriano, who lost the Pennsylvania governor’s race, and J.D. Vance, who won the Ohio Senate race.
Hobbs was a prime target for Lake’s attacks because he was overseeing Arizona’s 2020 election as Secretary of State. Biden had won Arizona by a narrow margin of about 0.3 percentage points, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump was so outraged by the loss that the Arizona Republican Party conducted a nearly five-month audit that concluded that Biden likely would have won by an even larger margin than had been reported.
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