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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs volition triumph the governor's race, CBS News projects, besting Rep. Andy Biggs, who was backed by President Trump and has promoted conspiracy theories astir the 2020 statesmanlike election.
Hobbs narrowly won the 2022 predetermination by conscionable 17,000 votes implicit Republican Kari Lake. Her contention was considered to beryllium 1 of the toughest for Democrats to win.
She faced 1 of the president's apical allies successful Congress, and Mr. Trump, who won Arizona by 5 points successful 2024, had gone to the authorities to run for him.
During her term, she has had to enactment with a GOP bulk successful some houses of the legislature, earning the nickname the "veto queen" from Republicans aft she issued implicit 100 vetoes successful her archetypal twelvemonth unsocial and 88 successful a azygous time earlier this year.
On the trail, Hobbs has touted the bills that she has worked with Republicans connected arsenic her bipartisan credentials.
Biggs, meanwhile, is simply a erstwhile seat of the blimpish House Freedom Caucus and has represented Arizona's 5th District adjacent Mesa for 5 terms.
The 2020 predetermination has continued to beryllium a contentious contented successful Arizona, wherever erstwhile President Joe Biden won with a borderline of conscionable 0.3%, oregon 16,000 votes. Mr. Trump repeatedly insisted helium had won the state, and it became a hotbed of conspiracy theories, particularly aft Fox News projected Biden's triumph earlier than the different networks.
Hobbs was the caput of authorities who administered Arizona's 2020 election.
Biggs, meanwhile, was among the members of Congress who challenged the 2020 predetermination results connected Jan. 6, 2021. He was subpoenaed by the now-defunct House Jan. 6 prime committee implicit his alleged engagement successful plans to bring protesters to Washington connected that day, arsenic good arsenic his efforts to person authorities officials that the 2020 predetermination had been stolen from Mr. Trump. His sanction appeared often successful the last report.
Biggs has besides refused to accidental whether Hobbs won the 2022 predetermination for governor.
Arizona had agelong been considered a reddish state, but the authorities has go much purple. It voted for Mr. Trump successful 2016, Biden successful 2020 and past Mr. Trump successful 2024. Both of the state's senators are Democrats, but Republicans power some houses of the authorities legislature.
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