{"id":1672724,"date":"2022-10-04T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672724"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:50:29","slug":"candidate-for-arizona-governor-kari-lake-takes-campaign-on-road-after-opponent-declines-to-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candidate-for-arizona-governor-kari-lake-takes-campaign-on-road-after-opponent-declines-to-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate for Arizona Governor Kari Lake Takes Campaign on Road After Opponent Declines to Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcandidate-for-arizona-governor-kari-lake-takes-campaign-on-road-after-opponent-declines-to-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>TUCSON, Ariz.\u2014Democratic candidate for Arizona governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-katie-hobbs\">Katie Hobbs<\/a> has declined to debate her Republican opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kari-lake\">Kari Lake<\/a>, ahead of the Nov. 8 general election, with her campaign telling local media she won\u2019t argue with a \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Hobbs, who is Arizona\u2019s secretary of state, requested a \u201ctown hall-style\u201d format in which each candidate would sit for a 30-minute interview in a controlled setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Hobbs remains willing and eager to participate in a town hall-style event, such as the forum she participated in [September], in which Arizonans were able to hear directly from Sec[retary] Hobbs about her in-depth policy plans and how she would approach governing this state,\u201d Nicole DeMont, Hobbs\u2019s campaign manager, wrote in a letter to the Citizens Clean Elections Commission in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The commission sponsors public debates each election cycle so that Arizona voters can better gauge the candidates running for office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01\/Katie-Hobbs-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Arizona Democratic candidate for governor Katie Hobbs speaks to the media before dropping off her primary election ballot in Scottsdale, Ariz., on July 21, 2022. (Ross Franklin\/AP Photo) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, debating a conspiracy theorist like Kari Lake\u2014whose entire campaign platform is to cause enormous chaos and make Arizona the subject of national ridicule\u2014would only lead to constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name-calling,\u201d DeMont said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must respectfully decline the invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake called Hobbs\u2019s rejection of a one-on-one debate a political act of \u201ccowardice\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it appears the voters won\u2019t get the chance to hear these two ideologically opposed gubernatorial candidates debate in a public forum, pitting their ideas\u2014and political agendas\u2014against one another.<\/p>\n<p> Debates Are \u2018Critical\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The political debate, which is perhaps as old as politics itself, is an opportunity for voters to directly gauge the candidates\u2019 image, honesty, and substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDebates are a critical tool for voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz.\u2014Democratic candidate for Arizona governor Katie Hobbs has declined to debate her Republican opponent, Kari Lake, ahead of the Nov. 8 general election, with her campaign telling local media she won\u2019t argue with a \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d Instead, Hobbs, who is Arizona\u2019s secretary of state, requested a \u201ctown hall-style\u201d format in which each candidate would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}