2022 Arizona gubernatorial election (Jake's World)

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The **2022 Arizona gubernatorial election** will took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Governor of Arizona, concurrently with the election of Arizona's Class II U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

The primary was held on August 2. This gubernatorial race was considered the closest and most important election for the direction the state of Arizona. Due to incumbent governor, Doug Ducey being term-limited from office it opened a large race for the GOP nomination. In the end former KSAZ-TV anchor, Kari Lake won the GOP nomination by 10%. On the Democratic side the voters nominated Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs by over %.

This election was considered by many AZ Democrats as a crucial one and was one of the first times since 2014 that they had a good realistic chance. In the general election campaign, Hobbs accused Lake of being a "Mini-Trump" who would make Arizona "Unequal and Divided". Most of Lake's campaigning was with former president, Donald Trump and called Hobbs and AZ Democrats "Communists and Socialist who will make Arizona into the next California". On election night Lake had a lead of 21,172 votes, in the following day her lead would shrink until 2 days after election day Hobbs had overtaken the lead and would go on to win by over 56k votes. Nevertheless, Lake didn't concede the election and said it was being stolen from her. Although on the day that Hobbs was being sworn in there was protests (mainly lead from Lake supporters) she was still sworn in as Arizona's 24th governor.

## Republican primary

### **Candidates**

#### **Nominee**

* Kari Lake, former KSAZ-TV news anchor

Former KSAZ-TV anchor
**Kari Lake**
#### **Eliminated in Primary**

* Steve Gaynor, businessman and nominee for Arizona Secretary of State in 2018
* Karrin Taylor Robson, land developer and member of the Arizona Board of Regents
* Matt Salmon, former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district (1995–2001) and Arizona's 5th congressional district (2013–2017) and nominee for Governor of Arizona in 2002
* Scott Neely, businessman
* Paola Tulliani-Zen, businesswoman

Businessman
**Steve Gaynor**Regent
**Karrin Taylor Robson**Former U.S. Representative
**Matt Salmon**Businessman
**Scott Neely**Businesswoman
**Paola Tulliani-Zen**
#### **Did not file**

* Bryan Masche, nurse and Air Force veteran
* Daniel McCarthy, skincare company executive and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2020

#### **Withdrew**

* Kimberly Yee, Arizona State Treasurer (2019–present) *(running for re-election)*

#### **Declined**

* Andy Biggs, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 5th congressional district (2017–present) *(endorsed Salmon)*
* Mark Brnovich, Arizona Attorney General (2015–present) *(running for U.S. Senate)*
* Paul Gosar, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 4th congressional district (2013–present) and former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district (2011–2013) *(endorsed Lake)*
* Debbie Lesko, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district (2018–present) *(endorsed Yee)*
* David Schweikert, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 6th congressional district (2013–present) and former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 5th congressional district (2011–2013) *(endorsed Salmon)*
* Kirk Adams, former chief of staff to Governor Doug Ducey (2015–2018) and former speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives (2009–2011)
* Steve Chucri, Maricopa County supervisor (2013–2021)
* Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party (2019–present), former state senator (2013–2015), and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016 and 2018