GOP governor Doug Ducey, who is leaving office because of term limits, announced on Thursday that he’s backing businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary:
I’m humbled to receive the endorsement of Gov. @DougDucey.
I’m honored he trusts me to move the state forward in a bold, conservative direction.
As Governor, I will secure the border, fight back against Washington and never stop fighting for Arizonans & their families.#AZgov pic.twitter.com/hOleKiIlIG
— Karrin Taylor Robson (@KTaylorRobson) July 7, 2022
Robson is locked in a close race with former TV anchor Kari Lake, who is backed by Donald Trump and Paul Gosar. Lake has called the extremist congressman Gosar “one of the greatest congressmen this country has ever seen” and has said that she would not have certified the results of the 2020 presidential election. Lake also called for “DECERTIFYING” Biden’s victory, which is not something that can really happen. The only constitutional way to remove a president from office is impeachment and conviction or under the 25th amendment. Lake has also courted controversy over her alleged hypocrisy about drag queens.
Conservative columnist Henry Olsen writes that a Lake gubernatorial nomination could very well “sink the Republican nominee in Arizona’s marquee Senate race, which could decide who controls that crucial body.”