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Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake won’t be debating, but Arizona’s gubernatorial candidates are both scheduled to participate in a forum next week.

GOP candidate for Arizona secretary of state Mark Finchem has bizarre ideas and is in full 2020 election denial mode. He's also an insurrectionist.

The raucous back-and-forth debate for Arizona secretary of state focused on whether election results are trustworthy and the value of early voting..

The public's only scheduled chance to see the two Arizona candidates for secretary of state side-by-side will happen Thursday evening.

Mark Finchem, the Republican candidate for secretary of state who has built his campaign on baseless claims the 2020 election was marred by fraud, continually dodged questions and spouted conspiracy theories in a televised debate Thursday night. 

The Arizona Clean Elections Commission is sponsoring the debate, which will air at 5 p.m. Thursday on Arizona PBS and stream on azcentral.com.

A Republican Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and has former President Donald Trump’s endorsement will spar with the Democrat who helped oversee the 2020 election in Maricopa County Thursday evening as they both seek the state’s top election post.

Rep. Mark Finchem will debate Democrat Adrian Fontes, the former Maricopa County Recorder who lost his 2020 reelection bid.

Tom Horne and Kathy Hoffman sparred over critical race theory, services for LGBTQ youth, and whether students are safe and learning as they should.

Candidates for Arizona's top K-12 education post debated over critical race theory and whether students are safe and learning as they should.