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Hobbs supports expanding access to healthcare and reproductive care, protecting Medicaid and eligible patients, lowering prescription-drug costs, and making care more affordable.

Biggs' campaign says he supports protecting Arizonans' health choice and implementing the MAHA agenda at the state level.

Hourihan says she would pursue affordable, high-quality healthcare by creating employer rebate and incentive programs, increasing healthcare-price transparency, strengthening oversight of insurers, encouraging competition, supporting…

Hobbs says she wants to lower costs for Arizona families through child tax credits and targeted sales-tax exemptions, expand child-care assistance and career and technical education, and support job and business growth to strengthen the state economy.

Biggs says he would make Arizona more affordable by incrementally eliminating the state income tax to attract businesses, encouraging job growth, reducing government interference, and pursuing cheaper fuel and electricity.

Hourihan says she would support Arizona businesses broadly, especially small businesses, while rejecting PAC and large corporate donations.

Lombardo's campaign says falling wages and rising bills require a living wage and a stronger social safety net. Its platform also endorses community-based economics, including employee ownership and workplace democracy, basic economic…

Hobbs supports modernizing Arizona’s water systems, protecting natural resources from climate impacts, and developing a clean-energy economy intended to lower costs and diversify the state’s energy infrastructure.

Biggs says Arizona should prioritize reliable, affordable energy to lower utility and gasoline costs. He specifically supports expanding nuclear generation at Palo Verde, developing small modular reactors, and requiring data centers to…

Hourihan's campaign platform supports promoting renewable energy by developing solar and wind infrastructure, incentivizing efficiency upgrades through tax credits or rebates, and supporting low-cost energy audits.

Lombardo's campaign says the human cost of climate change is too high and that Arizona should move off fossil fuels and onto renewable energy. Her issues page also endorses ecological wisdom, an energy-efficient economy, and sustainable resource use for future generations.

Hobbs supports reproductive freedom and says abortion and reproductive-care decisions should be made by patients and doctors rather than government.

Biggs has a record of opposing abortion access: he has described himself as pro-life, supported or co-sponsored federal legislation that could ban abortion nationwide—including personhood legislation extending constitutional protections to…

Hourihan says she is pro-life but would preserve Arizona's current abortion laws and would not seek to overturn laws approved by voters; she says any changes should be made through the democratic process.

Hobbs says Arizona should secure the border while pressing for federal comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and DREAMers.

Biggs says he would partner with President Trump and local law enforcement to secure Arizona’s southern border and crack down on drug and human trafficking.

Hourihan says Arizona should combine strong border security and enforcement of immigration laws with legal immigration pathways, due process, and humane treatment of people in detention.

Hobbs has opposed expansions of firearm access. In June 2026, she vetoed SB 1068, which would have barred public colleges and universities from prohibiting concealed carry by permit holders and certain firearm storage in vehicles, and SB…

Biggs says he will defend Arizonans’ Second Amendment rights as governor and oppose new gun-control restrictions.

Hourihan says she would maintain the Second Amendment right to bear arms and keep current Arizona gun laws to ensure public safety. In a candidate survey, she opposed enacting state-level restrictions on firearm ownership beyond current Arizona law.

Hobbs has addressed foreign-policy and national-security issues primarily through Arizona policy: she proposed the 2025 BAN Act to restrict China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and other foreign adversaries from owning land near military…

Biggs’s gubernatorial campaign has not published a broad foreign-policy platform. Its ethics platform does propose banning foreign contributions from influencing Arizona elections and requiring disclosure of state protocol-fund…

Hobbs supports expanding civil-rights protections and equal opportunity, including prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in housing, education, adoption, foster care, insurance, public accommodations, credit, and state…

Biggs has opposed legal protections for same-sex marriage: he voted against the federal Respect for Marriage Act in 2022, and has criticized Obergefell v. Hodges as a redefinition of marriage.

Hourihan’s campaign says every Arizonan should receive dignity, respect, equal treatment under the law, and protection from discrimination, harassment, and violence regardless of background, beliefs, race, religion, sex, sexual…

Lombardo's campaign website adopts the Green Party's social-justice and equal-opportunity framework. It states that all people should have equal access to societal and environmental resources, calls for confronting discrimination based on…

Hobbs supports accessible early childhood education and affordable child care, stronger supports and resources for students and educators, public-school investment and educator retention, expanded postsecondary and workforce pathways, and…

Biggs says he supports school choice and Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program and has argued that the universal program should be expanded.

Hourihan says she would support both public schools and school choice, including protecting Arizona's ESA program, while requiring audits and greater financial transparency for public, charter, private, and ESA-funded programs.

Hobbs has backed using AI and emerging technologies in Arizona state government to improve efficiency, service delivery, and workforce productivity.

Biggs opposes additional state tax breaks and subsidies for data centers, including AI-related facilities, and says developers should provide their own power, avoid adding pressure to Arizona’s electricity grid and water supplies, and…

Hourihan has not published a distinct artificial-intelligence policy, but her campaign addresses technology through data-center regulation.

Lombardo's campaign issues page does not state a specific artificial-intelligence policy. It does say the campaign supports using technology in ways that are humane, ecological, and accountable to communities, and says new technologies…

Hobbs signed 2026 legislation moving Arizona’s primary election to late July and changing election administration, including signature-curing and election-observer access provisions.

Biggs says he would sign election-integrity legislation aimed at timely election results and limiting participation to legal Arizona citizens.

Hourihan says election integrity will be at the forefront of her administration and that she will not tolerate public officials undermining confidence in Arizona elections.

Lombardo supports public financing of elections, open debates, and more representative voting systems, as stated on her campaign issues page under the Green Party's Democracy pillar.

Hobbs emphasizes working with local governments and community leaders on locally tailored solutions, especially affordable and workforce housing, streamlined permitting, low-interest financing, rural infrastructure, and homelessness assistance.

For Arizona’s local and state priorities, Biggs says he would focus on affordability and public safety, including incrementally eliminating the state income tax, expanding mining and mineral extraction on state trust land, and addressing…

Hourihan's campaign emphasizes local community safety, housing, infrastructure, water, and utility affordability. She supports completing homeless-encampment cleanup while expanding shelters, mental-health and addiction services, job…

In her Arizona Citizens Clean Elections voter-guide statement, Lombardo calls for a responsible environmental plan to protect Arizona’s air and water and meaningful reforms addressing education, homelessness, and the prison system.