Ward has been mainly ignored by McCain, who is looking to November when he faces off against a well-funded Democrat in Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick – if he wins Tuesday’s primary election.
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But, in an early blow to her candidacy, Ward never earned the support of the conservative groups that had been involved in successful challenges to GOP senators like Indiana’s Richard Lugar, and she struggled to compete against the better-financed McCain.
One day after securing his party’s nomination for reelection, John McCain kicked off his general-election campaign by reminding voters that Hillary Clinton will probably be the next president.
Specht calls the criticism by Kirkpatrick’s campaign an attempt to distract from the poster’s message that Kirkpatrick avoids public appearances in which she might be asked tough questions.
Other Republican senators have distanced themselves from Trump as they seek to defend their seats and help the party hold on to the Senate majority. Kirkpatrick has taken advantage of McCain’s humiliating dependence on Trump supporters, painting the elderly senator as helpless and weak.
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McCain vowed to not take the primary for granted, and he campaigned hard until the end. She also outpaces him in several critical battlegrounds, such as Florida and Ohio.
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee easily defeated former state Sen. Bernie Sanders. Twelve-term Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown, one of the first black lawmakers elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction, lost her primary in a redrawn district and under indictment over allegedly using a charity as a slush fund.
If history is any guide, then, this video should make Kirkpatrick a bit nervous – and the Clinton campaign a bit more at ease. Kirkpatrick’s campaign has no intention of letting voters forget that McCain continued to say he’ll vote for Trump after Trump got tangled with the family of a fallen soldier and a million other controversies. “A segment of the Arizona primary electorate opposes John McCain nearly no matter who he’s running against”.
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McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, won the Arizona primary by almost 14 percentage points over former state Sen. Senate Conservatives Fund, which warned in a fundraising letter a year ago that McCain was “in real trouble”, didn’t endorse her. Kelli Ward, with 97 percent of precincts reporting. His announcement almost cleared a crowded field, leaving wealthy developer Carlos Beruff as his only opponent. “I guess I was silly to believe the words of a Washington politician”. It was conducted before Tuesday’s primary election in Arizona.
