Arizona Elections Chief Katie Hobbs Wont Recuse Herself in Governors Race Against Kari Lake
November 8, 2022 | Arizona
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor, will not recuse herself from election duties for the 2022 midterm elections.
Her opponent, Republican Kari Lake, and some former secretaries of state have called on Hobbs to not oversee the election. They noted that it could create the appearance of a conflict of interest in a state where there have been claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election.
“Elected secretaries of state in Arizona have overseen elections where they’re on the ballot since statehood. This has never been an issue until now,” Hobbs told CNN’s Jake Tapper last week.
Hobbs added she is “not going to recuse myself from the job that the voters elected me to do, and for which I took an oath of office, to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona. I have done that throughout my tenure, as secretary of state. And I will continue to do that, until I leave office on Jan. 2.”
A polling average provided by RealClearPolitics shows the Donald Trump-endorsed Lake is leading Hobbs by about 4.5 percentage points. Hobbs has refused to debate Lake, a former local TV host…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)
