Arizona's Democratic election chief to run for governor

• Arizona has become ground zero for the "stop the steal" movement's effort to find evidence to support baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, AP reports.
• Current Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, is not eligible to run for a third term in 2022.

What they're saying: "The other side isn’t offering policies to make our lives better. They’re offering conspiracy theories that only make our lives worse," Hobbs said in her campaign announcement.

Driving the news: Last week, the Arizona House Appropriations Committee voted to strip Hobbs of the ability to defend election lawsuits — giving that duty instead to the state's Republican attorney general. The bill has not yet been approved by the full legislature.