Following Tuesday's primary election, it didn’t take long for Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and her opponent, Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, to launch advertising campaigns to reach general election voters.
Biggs won the Republican gubernatorial primary by a wide margin, according to the Associated Press, earning the chance to take on Hobbs in the November general election.
The Hobbs campaign launched a series of advertisements on Wednesday, including an attack ad painting Biggs as an out-of-touch Washington, D.C., insider responsible for backing unpopular economic policies, such as President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The ad points out that inflation rose 4.2% year-over-year in May, before using Biggs’ own words against him by replaying a comment he made last year to Breitbart.
“No inflation, yet the tariffs seem to be working,” Biggs said.
The ad also highlights Biggs’ support for a proposed 23% federal sales tax to replace income and payroll taxes.
“A sales tax on everything — gas, groceries, rent. A Biggs’ tax hit on family budgets. Another bad idea pushed on Arizona by a Washington politician,” the narrator said.
In his first commercial of the campaign, Biggs, a close Trump ally and former leader of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, touts himself as a candidate focused on protecting children and willing to work on bipartisan solutions.
“As (Arizona) Senate President, I worked across the aisle to expand funding for child safety,” Biggs said in the ad. “I protected our community as a prosecutor. That’s why law enforcement across Arizona is backing me.”
Biggs worked briefly as a prosecutor in the city of Phoenix decades ago before entering private practice.
In the ad, Biggs also pointed to the passage of the Ashlynne Mike Amber Alert in Indian Country Act, a bill he sponsored with the late Sen. John McCain that expanded access to the Amber Alert system to Native American reservations.
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