Arizona megathread

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2026 Hobbs vs Yee. Book it. Yee is an amazing Candidate. Hobbs will have a huge problem.

Yee would be a good GE candidate, which means AZ primary voters will run the other way.

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Interesting interview with Hobbs-

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/katie-hobbs-why-kari-lake-lost-1234647708/

Two things of note here-

She said basically their internal campaign model always showed it very competitive and showed Lake was not running a solid campaign in terms of the tangibles, like money, ground game, ads, etc. Which we had talked about before and I think I brought up - how Lake actually didn't have a ton of money outside of the RGA and she herself wasn't a fan of running TV ads. Looks like trying to rely on earned media rather than paid was a very bad decision.

She also said essentially that not doing the debate was a strategic decision, and seemed to be more of one of her team's than her own. She describes how in the end she did agree it was the right decision but there were plenty of heated conversations behind the scenes about it, and she had to go through the ringer a bit when angry donors would call about it

My favorite was the somehow simultaneously nice and shady answer about Sinema at the end.

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https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1770119099743641970?s=46
Recall that Hodge ran for Congress against David Schweikert in 2022 and only barely lost. How is this only coming out now?

He allegedly didn’t run again for Congress because of this.

I always hated him (check my post history) and got used car salesman vibes from him. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

The more shocking departure is Laura Terech in LD04 (the ultimate swing district) not running for re-election with, like, days before the filing deadline. What gives? All the others have more obvious explanations (running for another office, scandal, etc.)

Dems are hemorrhaging people!

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The more shocking departure is Laura Terech in LD04 (the ultimate swing district) not running for re-election with, like, days before the filing deadline. What gives? All the others have more obvious explanations (running for another office, scandal, etc.

In that particular case there was a candidate lined up, namely former Representative Kelli Butler.

Yeah, she has instant name ID in the district, since it’s basically her former district post-redistricting. Just odd..