Katie Hobbs Gets Snippy With CNN’s Dana Bash When Confronted on Why She Won’t Debate Kari Lake

Arizona Dem Gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs got snippy with CNN’s Dana Bash yesterday when she was confronted on “State of the Union” about why she won’t debate her GOP opponent Kari Lake.

In a clip shared in a tweet by RNC Research, Hobbs told Bash that voters are not “going to look at their ballot and say, ‘Hey, Katie Hobbs didn’t debate her opponent.'”

It certainly seems like Hobbs doesn’t even see the value in debates at this point ultimately based on those comments.

Bash had interrupted Hobbs while she was in the middle of saying that and shot back, “Well she just came and sat down – She just came and sat down with me and answered my questions for a lot of minutes.”

“Yeah,” Hobbs interjected, as Bash continued, “A lot of Democrats are questioning your decision and they are saying it is the wrong decision.”

“President Biden’s former 2020 co-chair said, ‘I would debate and I would want the people of Arizona to know what my platform is,” Bash explained.

Bash then asked, “If you think she’s as dangerous as you are saying to democracy, is it your responsibility as a candidate who wants to run Arizona to show and explain who their alternative is?”

Hobbs insisted in response, “That is exactly what I am doing right now and there is a lot more ability to have a conversation with you without her interruptions and shouting to do that.”

Journalist Jack Posobiec shared the clip from RNC Research and declared, “Katie Hobbs refuses to say why she won’t debate Kari Lake. Even CNN calls her out on this. Ouch.”

Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller piled on in a quote tweet of Posobiec, “Thanks to Joe Biden and Sellout Mark Kelly, Arizona’s border is now controlled by merciless criminal cartels who rule only by violence, intimidation and fear. Arizona needs a Governor with a spine made of steel, not jelly. Hobbs has forfeited this race.”

Thanks to Joe Biden and Sellout Mark Kelly, Arizona’s border is now controlled by merciless criminal cartels who rule only by violence, intimidation and fear. Arizona needs a Governor with a spine made of steel, not jelly. Hobbs has forfeited this race. https://t.co/WWDaqsa19S

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 16, 2022