from azcentral.com:

In a surprising reversal, Tom Horne came from behind late Tuesday to take the lead against Andrew Thomas in the race to become Republican nominee for attorney general.

Horne, the superintendent of public instruction, came from behind after being down some 9,000 votes earlier on Tuesday evening. But as votes were counted in Maricopa and Pima counties, he slowly erased Thomas’ lead.

Thomas, the former Maricopa County attorney, had spent the primary season painting Horne as an untrustworthy liberal. Horne, the superintendent of public instruction, said Thomas was an out-of-control prosecutor and a threat to citizens’ constitutional rights.

In the end, a slight majority of voters appeared to have chosen Horne as their standard-bearer.

In the Democratic race, Felecia Rotellini was holding on to a narrow lead over David Lujan.

Thomas, 43, ran as a proven crime fighter, saying crime had dropped by 19 percent during his time as county attorney. He said that he best represented Republican values in the race, taking strong positions against illegal immigration and abortion.

“It’s a barn-burner in the attorney-general races in both parties, but I’m very confident we’ll ultimately win,” he said on Tuesday evening at Republican headquarters in Phoenix, while he was still in the lead.

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