why do I call Katie Hobbs a coward?

This is old stuff, these Project Veritas videos, but they show why I think Katie Hobbs—who is running for Arizona governor but not confirmed yet—is a coward who campaigned while hiding, just like her hero Joe Biden. Watch the video and see Hobbs running away from a Project Veritas reporter. Early on, she spills her drink in her haste to get away from him (oh, and he's a large black man, by the way, making the optics even funnier: a white woman running from a black man who's only asking her questions). Later, she actually barricades herself inside a public restroom, and her spokesman, Joe Wolf, also hilariously ends up hiding in a bathroom, where he presumably calls for a ride, allowing him and Hobbs to escape the reporter. This is interspersed with video of Hobbs saying she'd love to have a substantive discussion with people, while another video shows her saying she refuses to talk politics with people she doesn't know. Katie Hobbs is a liar, a coward, and a hypocrite. Kari Lake, for all her faults, is a straight shooter who has no trouble facing the media. The difference is night and day. You're aware that the Arizona election hasn't been certified, right? Irregularities have been found and are being looked into. Whether this will result in a Lake victory, I don't know. I'd say probably not because, frankly, the fix is in. But at least we're seeing some resistance to the Democrat machine.

There's been some pushback from the left against the "Hobbs has a conflict of interest" narrative. The original claim by the right is that Katie Hobbs is Arizona's election chief, presiding over her own election, and this represents a conflict of interest. The leftie reply is that the GOP had the same situation: in 2018, Republican Brian Kemp presided over his own run for governor while running against Stacy Abrams. CNN reported on it here, but I doubt the agency made much of Katie Hobbs and her identical conflict of interest.

Note first that the leftie reply is a classic tu quoque fallacy: it's a case of whataboutism that doesn't address the issue of Katie Hobbs and her untenably unethical position. Second, as noted above, CNN probably didn't cover Hobbs's conflict of interest: a search on the CNN site for "katie hobbs conflict of interest" produced no articles explicitly about the issue. I haven't looked, but at a guess, the same is true for other leftie sites.

That said, I would agree that the Brian Kemp situation also represented a conflict of interest back in 2018 (for an election I didn't follow closely). Consistency demands such agreement. But that still doesn't resolve the issue at hand, which isn't about Brian Kemp.