Katie Hobbs Last Week: I Don't Have to Debate Kari Lake, I Am Answering Reporters' Questions Instead
Katie Hobbs Now: I'm Also Now Refusing to Answer Reporters' Questions

Before getting to that, Katie Hobbs the Abortion Mouse is currently the Secretary of State for Arizona, and what a bang-up job she's doing at it let me tell you.

Despite her campaign consisting of nothing but squeaking about abortion and insisting that she will not debate Kari Lake because she's an "election denier," because it's just insane to say that any election a Democrat wins (or, "wins") can ever be tainted by fraud or error, Katie Hobbs the Abortion Mouse is already shitting the bed in her own race.

She sent out 6000 faulty absentee ballots, which told voters falsely that they were ineligible to vote in the state election. Her election.

Gee, I wonder if these 6000 voters might have been Republicans.

This week, under Hobbs' leadership, the AZ Department of State improperly marked roughly 6,000 voters as only being eligible to vote in federal races -- and at least 1,000 voters already received the wrong absentee ballot.

In an official letter, Hobbs issued a statement on what she called "a federal only voter data error" that the secretary of state said was to blame for the ballot fumble:

"My office found and corrected a database error in concert with the Motor Vehicle Division" that supposedly caused thousands of voters to be marked for absentee ballots that only had federal races rather than the full slate of elections, specifically excluding the race for governor -- in which Hobbs is running -- along with other state and local offices.

But Abortion Mouse can't debate Kari Lake. Kari Lake says that not all elections are conducted without errors!

Abortion Mouse says that she doesn't have to debate, because she can get her message out to the public, by interacting with leftwing reporters.

Except Abortion Mouse doesn't feel like doing that anymore, either.

At Twitchy:

Abortion Mouse kept reporters corralled in a room to keep them from getting to her to ask questions, and then she escaped via a freight elevator.

Robert Anglen
@robertanglen

Reporters were held in a room at Arizona's largest journalism school Tuesday and prevented from questioning gubernatorial candidate @katiehobbss, who left in a freight elevator @Cronkite_ASU. Story by @sbarchenger via @azcentral

Alex Seitz-Wald
@aseitzwald

"...a departure from normal protocol when media is invited to view interviews or debates at Arizona PBS."

"Hobbs' spokeswoman said Hobbs had to get to her next event and couldn't take questions. Asked what that event was, [she] did not respond."

Here was Katie Hobbs literally running from a Project Veritas reporter.

I'm sure the fact that he was black had nothing to do with how quickly Abortion Mouse scurried away.

She then hid in a bathroom until the Scary Black Man had gone away.

Here Abortion Mouse declared "The debate about debates is over."

This is probably why Abortion Mouse doesn't want to have a debate -- or any further encounters with even Helpful Leftwing Democrat Reporters, either.

Note that that Helpful Democrat Reporter was actually trying to coach her into an answer that would please the average swing voter, trying to get her to say that she would not stop the building of a border wall. Still, Abortion Mouse had difficulty saying that.

Basically, Abortion Mouse is committed to extremely unpopular positions. She cannot endorse those positions without alienating moderate voters, and she cannot walk away from them, either, without alienating her extremist progressive base.

So she just doesn't want to say anything. Abortion Mouse just wants to squeak squeak squeak meaningless platitudes from now until election day to carefully-screened progressive Democrat crowds with no questions allowed.

Relatedly, here's CNN badgering Kari Lake about "accepting the results of the election." Kari Lake does the very standard thing where she does not contemplate losing. Candidates never want to publicly talk about losing a race.

Here's how Fake Jake Tapper, who NeverTrumpers all have a homoerotic passion for, "reported" the exchange:

He's so fair! Fake Jake only tells the truth!

Trafalgar say Kari Lake is just ahead of Abortion Mouse, and Blake Masters has caught up to Mark Kelly, behind by one point (well within the margin of error).

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is ahead of her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, with a lead just inside the poll's 2.9-point margin of error: 49.2% to 46.4%. Republican Blake Masters at 46.4% is running close behind incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly (47.4%).

posted by Ace at 04:43 PM

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