Arizona Democrat Refuses To Debate Trump Backed Conspiracy Theorist Kari Lake

Arizona's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs announced this past weekend that she will NOT be participating in debates against her Trump-backed opponent Kari Lake. Lake has been pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election for quite some time, and Hobbs says that a debate would only be a series of interruptions, lies, and conspiracies that would waste everyone's time. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why he believes it is a mistake to skip this debate.

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Katie Hobbs, the democratic, uh, governor, uh, gubernatorial candidate in Arizona. I hate the word gubernatorial. I always try to not use it, but I had to use it. Katie Hobbs has come out and said that she will absolutely not participate in any debates against her conspiracy theory. Spewing Trump backed opponent, Carrie lake here is what Hobbes's campaign said this week. Unfortunately, debating a conspiracy theorist like Carrie lake, whose entire campaign platform is to cause enormous chaos and make Arizona the subject of national ridicule would only lead to constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name calling. That is what Hobbes's campaign manager said in a statement in response to a request for Hobbes to appear October 12th in a debate with Carrie lake said, we're not gonna do it. She's a nut job. You know what, what good do we get out of this? I want to agree with you, but I don't. And do you know why I don't

Because do you know what Carrie lake did after Katie Hobbs? Uh, and her team said we're not participating in the debates first and foremost, Kerry lake then said, well, Hey, guess what? I'm gonna show up October 12th. I'm gonna be there. And I have no problem taking the two, three, whatever, how many hours it'll be. And just talking myself and getting out there in front of all the voters, I'll have 100% of the spotlight instead of 50%. So Carrie lake is still gonna show up and she's gonna spread her misinformation to possibly hundreds of thousands of people. And she's not gonna have a Katie Hobbs there to call her out on the BS. You have to call it out. I understand it gets annoying and it gets tiring. Try doing it every single day, multiple times a day for the last 18 years, trust me, it gets tiring, but we do it because we have to do it because it's our job to do it, Katie Hobbs. And if you don't take up the invitation and go to that debate, you are letting Carrie lake win. This is what, this is what she put on Twitter. This is what Carrie lake put on Twitter. It's becoming clearer every day that Hobbs' strategy is to hide from me, the press and the voters throughout the entirety of this campaign and run out the clock on the people of Arizona. She's already weaponized it against you.

You've got liberal talkers out there, myself included by the way, mocking Republican candidates who are ducking debates. You think I'm not gonna do the same to you, even though I want you to win. This is cowardice. This is stupid. You do not give Carrie lake a platform in front of hundreds of thousands of people for several hours to spew her lies without anyone pushing back on it. That is your job. And if you are not up for the job, go ahead and drop out so we can put somebody else on that ballot. Who's willing to do the job.