“John McCain has fallen down on the job”.
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The osteopath and former state legislator told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Thursday, “I’m a physician”.
Ward’s on-air diagnosis appeared to mimic other Republicans who’ve been offering random medical opinions on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
She did not back down: “Diagnosing him as an 80-year-old man, yes, I do”.
“With his fundraising in free fall and his foreign policy in shambles, John McCain is too weak to win in November against Obamacare Queen Ann Kirkpatrick”, read the statement. “He has gotten old”. “I see the physiological changes that happen in normal aging in patients again and again and again over the last 20, 25 years, so I do know what happens to the body and the mind at the end of life”.
“There are things that happen physiologically with the body and the mind”.
All of that counts against him, Ward said. “One of them is control over your anger and he’s already known as an angry man”, Ward said, munching on a baked potato at Durant’s, an old-school Phoenix steakhouse.
Also, though he didn’t mention this in his response to Ward, McCain comes from a family with some longevity: his mother celebrated her 104th birthday earlier this year. “It becomes more and more hard to control those kinds of outbursts”.
“He and his people have said I’m too conservative, I’m too liberal, I’m a racist, I’m a bigot”. I think it harms all of us when you have this level of personal attacks. “Yes, I do”, Ward said.
In response, McCain called Ward’s age-based attacks a “dive to the bottom”, saying it’s an example of just how much political campaigns have devolved over the years. “Someone who can problem-solve”. “After 4 decades in DC, it’s time to honor John McCain’s 80th birthday with retirement”.
Earlier this week, a CNN poll showed that McCain was the likely victor in Arizona’s primary and general elections.
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Ward, a Lake Havasu City Republican, trailed McCain by 26 points – 55 percent to 29 percent – in a CNN/ORC poll released this week.
