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She’s raised at least $3 million to date, and she’s leading polls of the Democratic primary by a mile. Hobbs’s status as an election hero has served her campaign well so far. She’s argued for arresting poll workers and has even called for Hobbs’s imprisonment. The leading Republican candidate, Kari Lake, a charismatic former local-TV-news anchor, has endorsed the lie that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump. Now, with just five months until the primary, the stakes of Arizona’s gubernatorial election are becoming alarmingly clear. When Hobbs announced in June that she was going to run for governor, money streamed in from her progressive fans in every corner of the country. Almost overnight, Hobbs had evolved from a wallflower bureaucrat to a liberal icon.

In the months following the election, the 52-year-old former social worker condemned the jeering mob outside a Maricopa County elections facility on CNN in The Washington Post, she mocked the “absurd spectacle” of election-conspiracy theories in an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, she denounced state Republicans’ sloppy attempt to overturn the results through a partisan audit. But Hobbs did not anticipate that she would become a spokesperson for democracy itself.

As the Arizona secretary of state, she’d planned for an onslaught of far-fetched legal challenges from Donald Trump and his allies if Joe Biden prevailed. Katie Hobbs was prepared for the 2020 election to get messy.

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