GOP gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs says he and Kari Lake are “very different people,” despite his opponent’s claims.
Biggs hopes to challenge incumbent Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs in November.
Her reelection campaign, Copper State Victory, is trying to convince voters that Biggs is a “carbon copy” of Kari Lake with a series of press releases comparing the two Republicans.
Lake ran unsuccessfully against Hobbs for governor in 2022.
“I don't think anybody that knows my personality would say that we're the same people,” Biggs said.
The campaign accuses both Biggs and Lake of supporting a near total abortion ban, supporting the Jan. 6 insurrection and refusing to concede election results.
Biggs has supported abortion bans and was accused by Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander in a since-deleted video of helping orchestrate the Jan. 6 riot, but Biggs denied it.
He also voted to overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results.
He wouldn’t say on Tuesday whether he believes former President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election or whether Hobbs legitimately beat Lake in 2022.
President Donald Trump and Lake claimed those respective elections were “stolen.”
Biggs says he and Lake do have one thing in common, which is that they were both willing to debate Hobbs.
Hobbs refused to debate Lake in 2022 and hasn’t agreed to debate Biggs either.
“I would love to debate Governor Hobbs. She was my minority leader when I was the Senate president, and I think that may be one reason she doesn't want to debate me,” Biggs said.
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