<p>Republicans are close to holding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a>’s governor’s seat and potentially flipping a U.S. Senate seat, according to a new Trafalgar Group/Daily Wire poll.</p>
<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kari-lake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a> is ahead of her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, with a lead just inside the poll’s 2.9-point margin of error: 49.2% to 46.4%. Republican <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blake-masters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blake Masters</a> at 46.4% is running close behind incumbent Democratic Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Kelly</a> (47.4%).</p>
<p>The poll consists of responses from 1,078 likely 2022 general election voters taken on October 16-17.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AZ-Gen-1017-Poll-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>READ THE LATEST TRAFALGAR/DAILY WIRE POLL ON KEY ARIZONA RACES</strong></a></p>
<div id="attachment_452181" style="width: 669px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-452181" class=" wp-image-452181" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll-300x169.jpg" alt="Democrat Katie Hobbs is running behind Republican Kari Lake in the race to become Arizona's next governor. (Daily Wire)" width="659" height="371" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_GOV_Poll.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px" /><p id="caption-attachment-452181" class="wp-caption-text">Democrat Katie Hobbs is running behind Republican Kari Lake in the race to become Arizona&#8217;s next governor. (Daily Wire)</p></div>
<p>One of the chief advantages Republicans have in Arizona is President Joe Biden’s unpopularity. Tying Democrats to Biden’s administration, which has struggled to handle a multitude of domestic and global crises, could pay dividends for GOP candidates.</p>
<p>“Most of the undecideds have a negative opinion about how Biden is handling his job as president, 55.9% in the Senate race and 56.9% in Governors race,” Trafalgar founder Robert Cahaly told The Daily Wire.</p>
<div id="attachment_452185" style="width: 663px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-452185" class=" wp-image-452185" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll-300x169.jpg" alt="Incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly is edging out Republican Blake Masters by one point to keep Kelly's seat in the U.S. Senate. (Daily Wire)" width="653" height="368" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/EW_AZ_Senate_Poll.jpg 1920w" sizes=" (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px" /><p id="caption-attachment-452185" class="wp-caption-text">Incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly is edging out Republican Blake Masters in Kelly&#8217;s bid for reelection to the U.S. Senate. (Daily Wire)</p></div>
<p>Lake has a slight <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/az/arizona_governor_lake_vs_hobbs-7842.html#polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edge</a> over Hobbs in Real Clear Politics average of recent polling. Lake has hammered Hobbs in recent weeks over the Democrat’s refusal to debate Lake head-to-head. The Republican candidate has said Hobbs’ reticence is a sign of cowardice while Hobbs has repeatedly denounced Lake as a “conspiracy theorist.” Hobbs has insisted that Arizona voters are better served by her refusal to debate than facing off against Lake, a former television news anchor and talented on-air presence, one-on-one.</p>
<p>“Arizonans want answers and solutions and they deserve a gubernatorial debate. If Katie Hobbs is too afraid to debate, how can we trust her to make the tough choices. Katie Hobbs is too weak to lead Arizona,” a GOP ad launching in Arizona this week said.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s been disastrous headline after disastrous headline for going on nearly 8 weeks as <a href="https://twitter.com/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiehobbs</a> refuses to debate <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KariLake</a>.</p>
<p>And with early voting just beginning in AZ, it&#39;s top of mind for voters.</p>
<p>Watch this new ad hitting AZ airwaves today. <a href="https://t.co/9RfOctCAgd">pic.twitter.com/9RfOctCAgd</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Will Reinert (@willreinert) <a href="https://twitter.com/willreinert/status/1582058009147998209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Masters has focused his campaign on Kelly’s voting record with Biden; the two Democrats have agreed with each other 94% of the time over the past two years, according to <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/mark-kelly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FiveThirtyEight</a>. Kelly has tried to fend off Masters’ attacks by pointing to <a href="https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/news-kelly-rated-among-most-bipartisan-senators-data-reveals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyses</a> that rank Kelly as one of the most bipartisan senators.</p>
<p>“Two thirds [of independents] know that Biden has failed. They want to send a senator to D.C. to check Joe Biden – only one third want ascend a senator to D.C. to enable Joe Biden,” Masters told The Daily Wire in an interview last month. “Mark Kelly is carpet bombing the airwaves pretending to be an independent. … He&#8217;s not an independent. Actually, he votes in lockstep for Joe Biden&#8217;s agenda.”</p>

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