Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is happy to troll Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs over tacos on social media — but she won’t commit to debating him on the issues.
During a phone interview on the Conservative Circus, a local radio show, Biggs was asked whether he’d eat a taco from a food truck on camera. “No, I don’t think so,” the congressman replied. “I have a problem eating tacos, brother. Half of it ends up down my shirt.”
Hobbs seized on the moment, posting a video to her personal X account of herself listening to the exchange — then taking a deliberate bite of a taco on camera.
The taco video opened a bigger question. When reporters asked Hobbs whether she’d be willing to face Biggs in a televised debate on actual policy issues, the governor pivoted sharply.
“Andy Biggs won’t commit to accepting the results of the election,” she said. “Why don’t you ask him that?”
We did. “Of course, I will accept the results of the election,” Biggs told Capitol Media Services. “And I hope that means she’s going to debate me now.”
Biggs’ commitment to accepting 2026 results is notable given his history. He was among the leading voices challenging the 2020 presidential election results, attempted to convince then-Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers that fraud had occurred in the state, and voted on January 6, 2021 to overturn the national results. Biggs told Capitol Media Services he believes this election will be fair in part because Republican Justin Heap — the Arizona Freedom Caucus’s pick — now serves as Maricopa County recorder.
Hobbs has a well-documented history of avoiding debates. In her 2022 run for governor, she refused to debate former Nogales Mayor Marco Lopez in the Democratic primary, then declined to share a stage with GOP nominee Kari Lake. Her campaign at the time argued Lake would turn any debate into “constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name-calling.”
Now, four years later, sitting on $15 million in campaign funds as of January and holding the advantages of incumbency, Hobbs is again non-committal.
“It is really early to talk about debates,” she said Wednesday. “Andy Biggs has a primary to win first. So we’ll get there when we get there.”
Biggs faces fellow Republican congressman David Schweikert in the GOP primary. Hobbs sidestepped a question about whether she would debate whoever emerges as the Republican nominee. Her campaign communications chief Michael Beyer offered no firm answer, saying only that Biggs “might want to focus on getting through his messy and chaotic primary first.
