Katie Hobbs is casting herself tough at the border TV advertising It’s meant to hone her credentials on issues the Republican Party has centered in its campaign against her.

News promotion: The ad for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate features testimony from Border Sheriff and fellow Democrats Chris Nanos of Pima County and David Hathaway of Santa Cruz County.

• It also makes an invariable appearance at the Arizona-Mexico border, a staple of frequent campaigns in Arizona.

What they say: “Katie Hobbs will provide the resources we need to keep you safe, my team safe, and our state safe. She’s not here to politicize borders. Katie Hobbs has plans and solutions,” Nanos said in the ad.

Opposite side: The Republican Governors Association (RGA) thrashed Hobbes about border security and illegal immigration, and has introduced these issues everywhere. TV advertising this is confront her Since the primaries.

• ‘Drug cartels and sex traffickers are running amok because Joe Biden is too weak to stop them,’ says one woman RGA Advertising Declare “Katie Hobbs will make the situation at the border even worse.”

Kali Lake — Opponent of Hobbes — “Hobbes has literally gone on record saying that talking about border security in the gubernatorial race is ‘ridiculous.’ Katie’s ad is not to be taken seriously. They will protect our borders. ”

environment: Hobbes stresses that immigration and border security are federal issues, but he said there are things the governor of Arizona can do. It provides funds for medical care and other services affected by immigration.

• Joe Wolfe, a spokesperson for her campaign, said the ad was a response to voters wanting to know where Hobbes stands with respect to border security and support for law enforcement, and that the RGA’s support for her He said it was not a reaction to an advertising campaign.

Yes, but: Hobbes told the Arizona Republic earlier this year:It’s ridiculous that the candidates were discussing Title 42.” As a core issue of the gubernatorial election.

• Title 42 is a policy enacted by Trump early in the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the deportation of illegal immigrants for public health reasons. President Biden tried and failed to end Title 42.
• Wolfe said Hobbes referred to Lake and the way candidate Karin Taylor-Robson skewed the issue and her views on it.

note: Hobbs appeared to defend Biden’s decision earlier this year, saying Title 42 was “not working,” but later “It’s a disaster to lift it.“

in the meantime: Lake vowed to complete former President Trump’s border wall, destroy tunnels under the border, and give the Arizona National Guard the power to arrest people suspected of illegal entry or drug smuggling, border security and illegal She made immigration a central issue in her campaign.