Kirkpatrick has attacked McCain’s support for the polarizing Donald Trump as proof he is no longer the political maverick who won the GOP’s presidential nomination in in 2008.
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Republicans have a 54-46 seat majority in the Senate.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat, won his party’s Senate nomination on Tuesday, and is expected to give g Rubio a tough fight, especially if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Trump in Florida.
Both the Arizona secretary of state’s new website and Cochise County’s election website crashed shortly after ballot counting began in Tuesday’s primary, but officials maintain the problems were isolated and will not recur in the November general election. It’s a change from past elections, most notably in 2010 and 2012, when flawed GOP candidates won primaries in states like Missouri and DE, only to cost the party in November. Kelli Ward and two other Republicans on the ballot Tuesday.
Senator John McCain survived a Tea Party challenge when he won Arizona’s Republican nominating contest on Tuesday, enabling him to seek a sixth term as U.S. senator from the southwestern state, according to media projections.
In the Jacksonville area, Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown became the fourth House incumbent to lose a primary race. In this Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 photo, former Arizona Republican state Sen. McCain, who is trying to extend a 30-year Senate career, faces a challenge from physician and former state Senator Kelli Ward, who is aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement. He’ll face the Democrat seeking Kirkpatrick’s seat, Tom O’Halleran. 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. Kelli Ward and two o. That prompted the major Republican Senate candidates to quit, leaving Carlos Beruff, 58, a millionaire homebuilder and newcomer to politics, as Rubio’s main primary challenger. She advanced after facing only a write-in opponent in Tuesday’s primary.
Mr. McCain has been dogged with questions about Mr. Trump, who has made comments that drew the senator’s ire, and even questioned Mr. McCain’s status as a war hero because he was a prisoner of war.
Ward had been mainly ignored by McCain, but she got national attention by saying in recent interviews that McCain would be unable to complete another six-year term because of his age.
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