Katie Hobbs

Oh, that is an amazing question.

Thank you so much.

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Thanks.

Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I launched in the face of having coming off of the most successful legislative session that we've had under my tenure as in a divided government.

And I think our state is stronger because I have continued to focus on

Arizonans first and the politics last.

I've taken on the tough challenges that so many of my predecessors, career politicians have ignored for years.

And we got stuff done because I'm willing to work with anyone to deliver for Arizonans on the tough issues we're facing.

When extremists in the legislature sent me a partisan budget that slashed services for Arizonans across the state, I vetoed it and I forced them back to the table.

And what we got instead was this bipartisan balance budget that delivers for Arizona families in contrast to the partisan Washington budget that skyrockets the debt, that slashes Medicaid for millions of Americans.

We protected healthcare for 60,000 Arizonans with disabilities.

Their budget slashes meals for kids and nutrition assistance.

My budget invests in school meals for 68,000 kids from working families.

Their budget cuts law enforcement budget.

My budget gives much deserved raises for state police and fire.

Their budget makes college unaffordable for so many Americans.

My budget invests in community college scholarships so more Arizonans have access.

The list goes on and on, but these are the kinds of things you can get done.

when you're focused on working with anyone who wants to come to the table with solutions and you're focused on the people who sent you to the capital to deliver on these issues.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

I'm really not sure what ideology you come from when you think that government shouldn't be there to help the people who elected you to serve in that government, like ripping away healthcare and thinking that you're helping Americans by doing that.

And then also you played the clip about the courts, like the courts are an important check and balance and obviously they don't want to be checked on their abuses of power right now.

Yeah, absolutely.

Whether it's health care costs or any other costs that when I talk to Arizonans, the thing I hear the most about this president is, look, he ran on lowering costs.

He says he won because costs were too high and he was going to do something about that.

He's doing exactly the opposite, whether it's these insurance premiums that we're going to see going up or

ripping away Medicaid that's going to also drive up insurance premiums for everyone, or the tariffs, his trade war, that is like the biggest tax we've ever seen that's making costs go up everywhere for businesses, for Arizonans.

It is exactly the opposite of what he ran on.

And Biggs and the other two Republicans that are in this primary against me are the biggest cheerleaders for these failed Washington policies at the expense of Arizonans.

Yeah, so economic growth is a huge priority for me.

I have worked to continue creating good paying jobs.

Under my tenure, we've created over 100,000 jobs.

And Arizona is one of 12 states right now that's experiencing economic expansion.

But, you know, there is this climate of uncertainty from the trade war, from so many other policies that are just creating uncertainty.

When I talk to small business owners, whether it's from the tariffs or other factors, they're

you know, very cautious about making growth plans about hiring.

So that's definitely impacting us.

But I continue to keep my head down to focus on what's right for Arizonans and move forward on those policies again with

whoever wants to work with me to solve these challenges you brought up housing housing is a huge issue not just here in arizona but across the country and i know here in arizona the housing costs um have gone up and that didn't happen overnight we're not going to solve it overnight but we're taking aggressive action to help address it i invested huge amounts in our state's housing trust fund where we've been able to build thousands of units of affordable housing

We use that fund to invest in down payment assistance so Arizona families could purchase their first home.

I've signed legislation that cuts red tape to allow for faster approvals, to allow for missing middle and other housing like accessory dwelling units or casitas.

I signed water legislation this year that will also help solve some of our water issues by converting high use agricultural land to housing and build the housing we need in some of the fastest growing areas of our state.

So there's not one single issue or solution.

It's not going to happen overnight, but we're chipping away at it.

And I continue to just be focused on what's right for Arizonans and working in a bipartisan way to address these tough issues.

Yeah, about 75% of Arizonans or more depending on the election utilize our system of early voting.

It's been around for decades before other states implemented universal mail-in voting.

In fact, David Schweikart, who's one of the Republicans running in this primary, when he was in the legislature, voted to implement mail-in voting.

When Andy Biggs was in the legislature, he voted to implement the permanent early voter list, which solidified early voting as a safe way to participate in elections in our state.

And now they're lockstep with the president in attacking it.

It makes no sense.

It's a secure way to vote and a huge number of Arizonans participate in it.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it is a lot of chaos every single day.

And I think that chaos is by design to make it hard to follow and to push back because it's like so much on so many different levels.

And you talk to folks on any side of the political aisle who say in private, oh, yeah, I don't support this, but, you know,

You have to go along to get along.

It's very frustrating that more people aren't willing to call this out.

It's hypocrisy.

It's bad policy.

It's it's it's harming it's harming Americans for some political ideology rather than policies that actually work and that actually move us forward and actually deliver on what you said you would do when you ran like lowering costs, like making our community safer.

whatever the issue is.

And again, I think how we win moving forward is, for me, especially as governor in a state like Arizona, is focusing on the issues and not the politics and bringing whoever to the table is willing to have a conversation about solving them.