GOP Goes QAnon To Attack Dem Arizona Gov Nominee

The Arizona Mirror reports:

The woman front and center in a Republican Governors Association ad attacking Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs has ties to QAnon-related events and has spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19.

The ad, titled “Traci,” features a San Tan Valley woman named Traci Hansen who in the ad calls herself an “advocate for human trafficking victims” and says that human traffickers are coming across the border into Arizona.

But Hansen’s advocacy work in the human trafficking arena appears limited. She has no ties to legitimate groups that combat human trafficking. But she did participate in a QAnon-adjacent march on the Arizona Capitol in July 2020.

Read the full article.

Hansen’s “expertise” in human trafficking appears to be limited to selling “Save The Children” t-shirts on Facebook.

The march on the Arizona capitol cited above was organized by a local “Stop The Steal” nutbag.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is the co-chair of the Republican Governors Association.

The RGA’s Anti-Hobbs TV ad features a QAnon-linked ‘advocate’ for trafficking victims, via @JerodMacEvoy https://t.co/sqjwI7BQSe

— Arizona Mirror (@ArizonaMirror) August 18, 2022