| Democrat Katie Hobbs won’t debate her opponent in Arizona’s race for governor, yet Republican Kari Lake tried to make it happen at a candidate town hall that organizers say she disrupted. Under the agreed-upon rules for the pre-recorded event, which was taped Monday and airs Saturday evening, the candidates were not supposed to be onstage at the same time and Hobbs was supposed to go first. But a problem arose before Hobbs even took the stage: Lake, who has pushed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, was sitting in the front row in a direct line of sight of where her opponent would sit. She demanded that Hobbs come out and debate her, pushing back on event organizers who told her she was breaking the rules by being in the audience. |
