has provided him with a $10 million war chest, is gaining in the polls. He is the American Great-
ness candidate, as is J.D. Vance, who is running for the Senate in Ohio. Masters’ appeal is that he
is a new face, although he is not a rousing speaker. Brnov- ich is not a charismatic speak- er either, but he has a solid record as a conservative.
GOVERNOR’S RACE Lake’s campaign to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has caught fire. A former local news anchor,
how unsettled Arizona Repub- lican politics are at this point.
ATTORNEY GENERAL Rodney Glassman, former Arizo- na Democratic Party chair who moved to Phoenix to become a Republican, is leading the race with the slightest of margins. He describes himself now as a very hardcore conservative. Andrew Gould brings the
Lake attracted a following when she quit TV declaring she no longer wanted to be a mouthpiece for “fake” news. One of her TV spots has her smashing a television. She was a former John Kerry and
RUNNERS-UP The GOP candidates to replace Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey include Kari Lake (top left), Steven Gaynor (top right), Matt Salmon (bottom left) and Karrin Taylor Robson (bottom right), among others.
Barack Obama Democrat whose hus- band gave money to both presidential campaigns. Her supporters dismiss this issue with “well, people have a right to change their minds politi- cally.” Her nearest opponent is former
Rep. Matt Salmon. He is experienced and nobody doubts his conservative credentials. While his numbers have gone up, he still remains 23 points behind Lake. A distant third in the race is for-
mer Arizona State University Board of Regents member Karrin Taylor Robson. She has raked in the cash from large corporate interests, as well as from her millionaire husband. She is outspoken and articulate in her call to “Build the wall” and border
security. Whether voters will accept her as a populist, people’s candidate is to be seen. The dark horse in this race is Ste-
ven Gaynor, an entrepreneur who is funding his own campaign. He, too, has launched a media campaign and it appears to have gained traction. His poll numbers have nearly doubled. Whoever wins the GOP nomina-
tion for governor will likely face Katie Hobbs, the current secretary of state. She is a well-experienced and well- funded candidate. But Republicans are hoping that
she will be damaged by her firing of a Black staffer, Talonya Adams, who subsequently won a $2.75 million dis- crimination suit, forcing Hobbs to publicly apologize. The thin margins found in the
attorney general and secretary of state races provide full evidence of
The Republican base is fired up. Registrations are up, despite 5,000 Republican voters shiſting to independent aſter the Jan. 6 protests.
most experience to the position. He resigned his seat on the Ari- zona Supreme Court to run for this office because he said he was frightened about the direction of the country. A former county prosecutor
in Yuma, Gould presents him- self as a man with a clear legal strategy to turn things around in Arizona and the nation based on
immigration, drugs, law enforcement, and taxes. Lagging behind in the polls by
just a few points are Tiffany Shedd, who ran twice for Congress in Pinal County; and newcomer Lacy Cooper, a former state and federal prosecutor. Less well-known in the race is Abe Hamadeh, a former attorney in the Maricopa County prosecutor’s office and a reserve officer in the U.S. military. He has gained a lot of traction
among grassroots voters for his mes- sage that after he returned from deployment in the Middle East this summer, he was shocked by how the country has changed. When asked how he saw the cam-
paign, he replied, “There is a battle between the same old revolving door of establishment insider candidates, perennial loser candidates, and new blood conservative outsiders. I am the latter.”
Donald T. Critchlow, author of Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny (Regnery, 2021), is a professor at Arizona State University.
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