Almost overnight, Hobbs had evolved from a wallflower bureaucrat to a liberal icon. In the months following the election, the 52-year-old former social worker condemned the jeering mob outside a Maricopa County elections facility on CNN in The Washington Post, she mocked the “absurd spectacle” of election-conspiracy theories in an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, she denounced state Republicans’ sloppy attempt to overturn the results through a partisan audit. But Hobbs did not anticipate that she would become a spokesperson for democracy itself. As the Arizona secretary of state, she’d planned for an onslaught of far-fetched legal challenges from Donald Trump and his allies if Joe Biden prevailed.
Katie Hobbs was prepared for the 2020 election to get messy.
