PHOENIX Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Kari Lake dont agree on much, but their campaigns for Arizona governor did have one thing in common recently the faint scent of manure.

In Lakes case, it wafted through the breeze at a western ranch where the GOP nominee was holding a rally featuring a live rodeo and a petting zoo with llamas, alpacas and goats. For Hobbs, it featured prominently during a small outdoor get-together hosted by supporters who raise chickens and peacocks on their property.

Manure, however, is where their similarities ended.

Lakes event was over-the-top, loud, and had several thousand people. Hobbs was intimate, subdued, and had only about a dozen.

The jarring split screen of the two campaigns underscores the candidates vastly different approaches in one of the nations most competitive gubernatorial races, which is effectively deadlocked less than two weeks from Election Day.

Lake, a former TV anchor, is a carrier of the MAGA torch, including the discredited theory that the 2020 election was compromised by fraud. Hobbs, the states top elections official, is proving to be a weak Democratic stalwart against Lake in a prominent swing state that Joe Biden won in 2020.

In the campaigns final sprint, Hobbs is using small gatherings with local elected Democrats and volunteers to contrast herself with Lake, whom she calls that Trump-endorsed, election-denying, media-hating, conspiracy-loving GOP nominee a phrase she utters in a single breath on the stump.

Lakes biggest events mimic a Trump rally, and she uses them to similar effect, mocking Hobbs for holding ones a fraction of the size.