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Phoenix (AP) – the democratic governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, started her re -election candidacy on Wednesday and outlined a practical instead of confrontative approach for the election campaign in a swing state in which politics is fragile and she will need the support of the Republicans.

At the national level, the Democrats are trying to recover from the drastic losses in the 2024 elections. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press before the publication, Hobbs shook pessimism in the ranks of the Democrats and among voters. She said that she focused on putting the residents of Arizona in the first place and leaving politics aside, a message that she hopes that she will be appealed to voters throughout the political spectrum.

She will need that, especially in a swing state that supported President Donald Trump in 2024, but decided to go for Joe Biden four years earlier.

“I think that victory in this race in Arizona will be a strong signal that we know how to win in difficult states like Arizona. And it is not about politics. It is about tackling the topics that are important,” said Hobbs and referred to topics such as affordable living space and border security.

As a more likely democratic candidate, Hobbs will compete in the parliamentary elections in November 2026 against the developer Karrin Taylor Robson, the US representatives Andy Biggs or the US representative David Schweikert. Taylor Robson and Biggs are both supported by Trump.

Way to the governor

Hobbs gained nationwide awareness through Trump’s false claims that the elections were stolen in 2020. The former Foreign Minister of Arizona was introduced to the governor in 2023 when the Democrats gained growth in the state’s top offices, and has thus won the first democrat that was elected governor, since Janet Napolitano won a second term in 2006.

Hobbs carried out a cautious campaign in 2022 and was largely confined to public appearances with a script and choreography. She declined to debate her Republican opponent Kari Lake, a Trump loyalist who also mistakenly claimed that the election 2020 had been manipulated. Hobbs won with less than one percentage point.

Hobbs admitted that the race would become challenging in 2026 and said that she would not consider a vote as a matter of course.

She criticized Taylor Robson, Biggs and Schweikert for supporting Trump’s draft budget, which in her opinion increases the federal deficit, shortens meals for children and endangers health care.

“It’s not nice,” she said. “The effects of this party budget in Washington will be very painful for Arizona’s residents because they have to make really difficult decisions, although I have always tried to put the families in the first place. And with these cuts it will be a real challenge.”

Border security

At the beginning of the year, Hobbs founded a task force for law enforcement to combat the influx of illegal drugs, including Fentanyl, across the state border with Mexico to the USA. It was praised by Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem.

Hobbs gave it an example of how she worked with the Trump government in the area of ​​border security. She had confronted bidges and said that his government had not done enough.

Hobbs was firmly convinced that the deportation of people should not take place indiscriminately, and Trump’s widespread immigration measures.

“I would continue to work to ensure that the president keeps his promise and proceed against the people who make us unsure,” she said.

In the past legislative period, she made her veto against a draft law supported by the Republican Party, which should oblige local and state officials to cooperate with the federal efforts to enforce the immigration provisions. It was criticized by members of her own party, who urged her to shorten the border support expenses.

A split state government

Since her term, Hobbs has been strategically critical of her Republican opponents in the state parliament. The GOP expanded its majorities in both chambers last year, which increases the hurdle for the governor to enforce one of its priorities.

She has repeatedly asked to contain the state school voucher program – a failure for the legislative Republicans. She said she shared the frustration of the Arizonans, who would like accountability and more guidelines within the program.

“Arizona’s residents should be frustrated. I am frustrated. I will continue to propose reforms and continue to fight for these reforms,” ​​she said.

In the last meeting, Hobbs’ office decided to negotiate only a handful of topics, including water policy, the financing of some of the most endangered residents of Arizona and the renovation of a stadium used by the Arizona Diamondback. Not all of these laws made it through the finish line.

“I think that my track record of the topics that are close to the residents of Arizona, be it the securing of the border, securing our water future, cost reduction, investing in education or creating well -paid jobs, which is what will make this another four years possible,” she said.

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