According to forecasts, Democrat Katie Hobbs has won the contested gubernatorial election in the US state of Arizona. According to forecasts by the TV channels NBC and CNN, the 52-year-old prevailed against Republican right-wing candidate Kari Lake on Tuesday.
Hobbs served on the state government for the 2020 presidential ballot count contested by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Lake, a former TV host, has been endorsed by Trump and is among those who have repeated his unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden won the presidential election through massive fraud. In connection with this, she had called for the then state Secretary of the Interior to be arrested for voter fraud – and that was Katie Hobbs, the Democratic contender for the governorship who is now emerging as the winner of the election campaign.
Joking about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband
Lake was among the Republicans who used the attack as a campaign mockery after the violent attack on the husband of US leader Nancy Pelosi. During an Arizona campaign on protecting schools from attackers, Lake joked about the attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul.
The previous Republican governor, Doug Ducey, was unable to run in the elections due to a term limit. Arizona is considered a contested state in the USA, which has changed more and more from a once republican stronghold in favor of the Democrats. In the election on Tuesday last week, governors were voted on in 36 states. Currently, only the election in the state of Alaska has not yet been decided due to a complicated electoral system. Of the governors is the most important office in a federal state, comparable to a prime minister of a federal state in Germany.