Katie Hobbs declines a debate with her opponent for AZ governor, Kari Lake. It was a wise choice.

From KJZZ, written by Lauren Gilger and Ron Dungan -

Katie Hobbs says no to Arizona governor debate against Kari Lake

Democrat Katie Hobbs’ campaign announced Sunday that she would not debate Republican Kari Lake as the two battle for the Arizona governor’s office, calling off any negotiations with Lake and the state commission overseeing debates.

The decision came after more than a week of efforts by Hobbs, currently secretary of state, to change the debate into separate half-hour interviews with the moderator. The Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which has held debates for two decades featuring candidates for statewide and legislative offices, flatly rejected that proposal on Thursday.

Instead, the commission urged its staff to work with Hobbs to come up with minor changes to the debate and gave her a week to come to an agreement. Hobbs' campaign manager's statements to the commissioners made it seem unlikely that a deal could be reached.

Nicole DeMont instead repeated the campaign's concerns that debating Lake would "just create another spectacle, like we saw in the GOP primary debate. But on top of that, I would just add, you can’t debate a conspiracy theorist and at the last debate, she brought the conversation back to the 2020 election no less than a dozen times.”

The GOP primary debate featured four candidates who almost immediately devolved into a free-for-all of talking over and constantly interrupting each other.

From Goodreads -

Of course, I don't believe that Lake is a fool.

Nope, she's a nutjob.

The quote still works though.