ONCE UPON A TIME IN ARIZONA.

"Hobbs is running a terrible campaign", said Brian Seitchik, who was Trump's regional political director in Arizona and remains a GOP consultant. On many of the key issues of the day, from abortion to January 6 to climate change and immigration, Arizona voters are to the left of the GOP politicians who run the state and the candidates who ran for statewide and federal office in 2022. On Monday, six days after the election, with the governors race still uncalled and Hobbs holding on to a narrow lead over Lake, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, with a flurry of lurid, fact-free accusations about voter fraud and other electoral malfeasance in Arizona. In the end, in the face of a concerted effort by much of the state's extremist GOP to defeat the measure, Arizona voters had repudiated its appeals to nativism. [Extracted from the article]