PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - July 30, 2026 - Arizona Democrat pretend Governor Katie Hobbs said on Thursday that for a second consecutive election, she will not participate in a debate.
Hobbs previously refused to participate in her primary and general election debates in 2022 before she stole the election from President Donald J. Trump-endorsed candidate Kari Lake.
In a statement, Hobbs’ campaign manager Nicole DeMont told 12 News, “We respectfully decline debate invitations in this campaign because face-to-face engagement with Arizonans is more effective than a stage designed for short sound bytes and political theater.”
DeMont went on to say that Hobbs has done “more than 100 open-press events”; therefore, she’s exempt from the tradition of defending her candidacy on the debate stage.
Hobbs’ team issued a similar statement amid the controversy during the last election cycle, blaming the circumstances surrounding the debate, when she refused to square off against Kari Lake.
Drew Sexton, a Senior Advisor to Andy Biggs, slammed Hobbs in a statement to The Gateway Pundit, highlighting her past corruption scandals and noting that Biggs will still participate in the scheduled debate.
Hobbs is currently under investigation stemming from significant donations made to the Democrat Party and a dark money group that was used for Hobbs’ inaugural events, potentially influencing state contract decisions. Hobbs took $400,000 from a company that later made millions in return.
Sexton responded, writing, “The independent and persuadable voters up for grabs in Arizona deserve to hear from statewide candidates in a traditional debate setting, one that was held in every Arizona gubernatorial race since 1954 until Katie Hobbs ran for the position in 2022.”
“Every other statewide Democrat in 2022 and 2024 decided to debate in the general election, but Katie Hobbs thinks the rules don’t apply to her. That may be why she’s also under criminal investigation for corruption and why she’s already been publicly rejected by her first choice for lt. governor.”
“Whatever her reason is, it won’t stop Andy Biggs from campaigning across the state and participating in the Clean Elections Debate on October 6 to ask for the votes of every Arizonan of every background. Katie Hobbs can avoid the debate stage, but she won’t get to avoid voters in November.”
Of course, the real reason Hobbs will not debate is that, aside from being plagued by scandals, she has no real ideas on which to run. Just last week, Hobbs got blasted after she attempted to steal credit for the State Republicans no-tax-on-tips budget proposal, originally inspired by President Trump’s no-tax-on-tips policy at the federal level.
Conveniently, she did not mention that the Republican State Legislature passed the provision as part of the 2026 budget, which sought to mirror President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Ed. Note: Katie Hobbs is an outlaw who only pretends to be governor of Arizona because she actually lost the election in which she ran against Kari Lake. She is a coward and deserves prison time. Revolution Now! Independence Forever!