Rep. Andy Biggs is already swinging for Gov. Katie Hobbs on Arizona TV, rolling out two fresh attack ads as he inches toward a likely run in next year's governor's race. The spots pin rising costs and culture-war angst squarely on Hobbs, but they blend some fair voter frustrations with some pretty selective storytelling.
According to Phoenix New Times, both commercials were funded by Biggs for Arizona and produced by political consulting firm DC London. One one-minute ad features Biggs in a black MAGA hat, shaking hands and pledging "a freer, safer, more prosperous Arizona." The second spot, titled "We Can’t Trust Katie Hobbs," splashes affordability headlines over grainy clips of the governor.
The 'California' Burn Skips Who Actually Writes Arizona Law
In the ads, Biggs warns that Arizona is “going the way of California,” a favorite conservative jab. His campaign defends that line by pointing to higher state spending and a bigger push for wind and solar. Left out of the frame is the basic civics lesson that Arizona budgets and policy are hammered out with a Republican-controlled legislature that shares the wheel on state priorities, a point noted by KJZZ.
Gas And Housing Sticker Shock Is Mostly A National Story
The claim that Hobbs personally drove up gas and housing costs takes a messy national and global picture and flattens it into a clean campaign punchline. Oil and gas prices jumped this spring after turmoil linked to the U.S. Iran confrontation and shipping interruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, pressures that move prices far beyond the control of any one governor, according to The Guardian.
That So-Called Secret Mexico City Trip Was Not Actually Secret
One clip on repeat in the ads shows Hobbs snapping at a constituent that who paid for her Mexico City trip was "none of your business." What the spots skip is that the visit was part of a business delegation organized and funded by the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and that the state protocol fund initially picked up the tab for Arizona Diamondbacks tickets. Those details were reported by the Arizona Republic and republished by Arizona Republic.
Bottom line
Biggs is clearly tapping into real voter anxiety about prices and leadership, but his ads regularly skip key context, including national energy shocks, a long-running housing shortage that predates Hobbs, and the central role of a GOP legislature in setting policy. As Phoenix New Times notes, Biggs entered the second quarter with more than $1.1 million in the bank, and his campaign website is busy pushing out press releases to keep those attack lines in heavy rotation.
