Kari Lake KICKED OUT of Town Hall Audience Ahead of Katie Hobbs appearance
As a crowd of over 200 people watched, event organizers confronted Lake, telling her to go to her separate room; she protested and said that Hobbs should come out and debate her.
Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was kicked out of the audience at her own race’s town hall event, during which her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, refused to take the stage with Lake present. After a brief confrontation between Lake, who requested to take the stage alongside her rival, and the event’s moderator, the gubernatorial hopeful was forced to leave the auditorium for the forum to begin.
Hobbs, who has repeatedly refused to debate Trump-endorsed Lake, was set to take the stage at the pre-recorded town hall on Monday at Phoenix’s Herberger Theater Center when event organizers told the Republican to leave the room, reported NBC.
Under the rules for the taped event, which will air at 7 pm Saturday Arizona time, audience members were prohibited from taking video, and the candidates were reportedly not supposed to be onstage at the same time.
However, just before Hobbs was supposed to walk out onto the stage to address potential voters, trouble arose when Lake was spotted sitting in the front row of the audience instead of in her allocated green room.
According to eyewitness accounts, event moderator León Krauze, a Univision News anchor, invited Hobbs to the stage, but she did not come out…..
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