{"id":1724658,"date":"2022-11-04T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724658"},"modified":"2022-11-04T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:37:27","slug":"even-arizona-dems-think-katie-hobbs-should-recuse-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-arizona-dems-think-katie-hobbs-should-recuse-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Arizona Dems Think Katie Hobbs Should Recuse Herself"},"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\">18<\/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%2Feven-arizona-dems-think-katie-hobbs-should-recuse-herself%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=1724658&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/7643dd79-9de7-46d9-94e8-ffe332b6713c-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you listen to Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate running against Kari Lake, you would think that Lake represents the greatest threat to public confidence in the upcoming election. She continually claims that Kari Lake \u201cwon\u2019t accept\u201d the results of the election if she somehow loses. (As if \u201cnot accepting\u201d election results somehow voids the election.) But there is a much more significant and glaringly obvious problem with the governor\u2019s race that Hobbs never seems to mention. The Arizona Secretary of State is charged with overseeing the election and ensuring its accuracy and validity. How is it that Katie Hobbs is overseeing an election where she is a candidate? Isn\u2019t that a blatant conflict of interest? Well, it\u2019s blatant enough that members of her own party are now calling on her to recuse herself, and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6227705\/katie-hobbs-role-election-chief-arizona-governors-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Magazine has chosen to run the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span role=\"presentation\">A<\/span>s election officials across the country\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/north-carolina-election-denial-voting-surry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brace<\/a>\u00a0for candidates to contest the election results in possibly unprecedented numbers, the most explosive challenge could unfold in Arizona, where Republican candidate for governor\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-3\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6225004\/kari-lake-arizona-maga-right-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kari Lake<\/a>\u00a0is preparing for a fight.<\/p>\n<p>The former local news anchor has made casting doubt on President Joe Biden\u2019s victory in Arizona a centerpiece of her campaign, despite\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-4\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-elections-arizona-phoenix-conspiracy-theories-d38321441bcd6cea58421f6871b4f74e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple<\/a>\u00a0investigations having found no evidence of substantial fraud. On Tuesday, her campaign hired one of the lawyers who represented Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 election lawsuits, the latest signal that she might dispute the election outcome if she loses to her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. And members of both parties now say that Hobbs may be feeding the potential for conflict by planning to oversee an election in which she\u2019s a candidate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the people publicly calling on Hobbs to recuse herself are two former Arizona secretaries of state, one a Democrat and the other a Republican. One of them suggested that oversight of the election should be turned over to either the attorney general or the Maricopa County recorder.<\/p>\n<p>While the Secretary of State doesn\u2019t conduct the election, her office is tasked with collecting and verifying the results submitted by each county. In the case of a recount (and this race is very close in the latest polls), her office would be heavily involved. And yet, Hobbs\u2019 spokesperson came out and said that she has \u201cno intention\u201d of recusing herself from that role.<\/p>\n<p>I could understand Hobbs being reluctant if she were being asked to step down from her office entirely. That\u2019s what happened when Brian Kemp was asked by Stacey Abrams to step down as secretary of state in Georgia when he was running for governor against her. (Kemp declined.) But Hobbs is only being asked to turn over the responsibility for overseeing her own election, not to abandon her office completely.<\/p>\n<p>How much faith should Arizona voters put in the results under these circumstances, particularly if there is a recount? The same woman who has hidden away in her campaign office and refused to debate her opponent or answer questions as to what she would do as the governor wants to be the person in charge of counting the votes? This should have been among the easiest calls for a political candidate to make in the history of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The irony in this story is as thick as taffy. A spokeswoman for Hobbs responded by accusing Kari Lake of \u201cundermining the Constitution and the democratic process\u201d by questioning the results of a previous election. How she managed to do that while not holding any political office has yet to be explained. And yet keeping control of a closely contested election that Hobbs herself is running in is somehow fine and dandy. It\u2019s almost too much to believe, even in today\u2019s torturous political minefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen to Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate running against Kari Lake, you would think that Lake represents the greatest threat to public confidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724658","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}