Did Hobbs not debating have any impact on the outcome at all?

[wbrocks67]

I said it another thread, but even the best debater would not have been able to make that debate work against Lake. Lake is absolutely ruthless, and rational does not matter whatsoever to her. If you watch any of her interviews or press conferences, it doesn't matter if you confront her with fact or concrete rational reasoning - she will always twist it into some nonsense and try and flip it on you. Even when Lake is called out and clearly wrong, she tries to manipulate it to not look that way. Hobbs made the right call here.