2 top Arizona Democrats take different tactics in new Trump term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : As governor, Hobbs has to work with a Trump-friendly Republican legislature and may need to cajole the White House for federal assistance during Trump's presidency.
53% : Both Hobbs and Mayes are Democrats who will seek reelection next year in a state that went for Trump.
51% : By Jonathan J. Cooper The Associated Press PHOENIX -- Days after Donald Trump was elected to a second term, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs headed to the Mexican border with a conciliatory message.
47% : Since then, she's joined lawsuits challenging a blanket federal funding freeze, National Institutes of Health funding cuts, Elon Musk's role atop the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and DOGE's access to sensitive financial records at the U.S. Treasury.
41% : In winning over working class voters, Trump scrambled political allegiances and left Democrats struggling to piece together a viable coalition.
38% : Hobbs, meanwhile, has been largely holding her fire, sometimes frustrating Democratic voters hungry for leaders to take on Trump. Arizonans want strong leaders "who will stand up to a bully and who will protect our Constitution and their rights," Mayes said.
30% : Mayes first sued Trump the day after he took office, when she joined a coalition of Democratic attorneys general suing to block an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
28% : "It may not make a difference in the grand scheme of things of Trump actually listening to those, but it does make a difference to me," Johnson said.
25% : She's skeptical that Mayes' lawsuits will restrain Trump, but it matters to her to see someone fighting.
23% : The dynamic is much the same in Michigan, another battleground state Trump won narrowly, where Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel is aggressively confronting the Trump administration both legally and rhetorically, while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been more restrained.
19% : Mayes is also prosecuting Trump aides and allies involved in his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
10% : " In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has been at times solicitous of Trump and Republicans as he pleads for disaster aid to recover from wildfires as Attorney General Rob Bonta sues. To be clear, neither Hobbs nor Mayes could be mistaken for a Trump supporter.

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