NPR 2 pm newscast. Anchor Lakshmi Singh: "An election-denying Republican is on the ballot to become on Arizona's next governor. She's challenged by a Democrat who spent the past 2 years defending the state's election integrity." 1/
To Ben Giles at KJZZ: "Republican Kari Lake, running in her first-ever campaign, rode the endorsement of former president Donald Trump to victory in Arizona's GOP primary...." 2/
Giles: "The former local news anchor ran a brash and loud Trump-like campaign, boasting she drove a stake through the heart of the conservative establishment." 3/
"Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizona's current Secretary of State, ran a far more subdued campaign. She refused to debate Lake, while pitching herself as a safer choice to Arizona's important independent swing voters. Hobbs has described the race as a choice between sanity and chaos."
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A thread on @PolitiFact pouncing on Senator Rick Scott, which again spurs a sad exploration of their partisan checking patterns. This is the 7th Scott check in 2021. newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-g…
Overall, in 2021, Jon Greenberg has 28 fact checks on Republican politicians or entities, and just seven on all Democrats (compared to 7 on Scott). Four fact checks on Biden. Greenberg's two fact checks on Senate Democrats (Tim Kaine and Sherrod Brown) were both rated "True."
Overall, Rick Scott has 172 fact checks from PolitiFact -- 80 of them "Mostly False" or worse. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer has...23.