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McCain on tape: Trump damages my reelection hopes
POLITICO ^ | May 5, 2016 | BURGESS EVERETT and SEUNG MIN KIM

Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:46 AM PDT by maggief

Publicly, John McCain insists Donald Trump will have a negligible effect on his campaign for reelection. But behind closed doors at a fundraiser in Arizona last month, the Republican senator and two-time presidential hopeful offered a far more dire assessment to his supporters.

“If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, here in Arizona, with over 30 percent of the vote being the Hispanic vote, no doubt that this may be the race of my life,” McCain said, according to a recording of the event obtained by POLITICO. “If you listen or watch Hispanic media in the state and in the country, you will see that it is all anti-Trump. The Hispanic community is roused and angry in a way that I've never seen in 30 years.”

The 2008 GOP presidential nominee is certainly the favorite in his race to win a sixth term in the Senate. But his remarks about the party’s presumptive nominee expose a deep well of concern about how Trump might damage the GOP’s chances in the battle for Senate control — especially in states like Arizona, Nevada and Florida, where Latinos make up a big chunk of voters. Republicans are defending two dozen seats this year, many in blue and purple states, vs. just 10 for Democrats — a daunting landscape even without Trump atop the ballot.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arizona; demagogicparty; election2016; johnmccain; juanmccain; mccain; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; trump
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To: maggief

You betcha!


61 posted on 05/05/2016 6:09:22 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: maggief

I guess three decades of sucking-up to Hispanics at every turn in the road has earned you very little street cred with them, eh, Johnny Boy?


62 posted on 05/05/2016 6:15:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maggief
Let's prevent Sen. McCain from having to suffer all that stress.

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63 posted on 05/05/2016 6:20:59 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: maggief

On the other hand, it might have something to do with the fact that McCain is, like, 150 years old and has been senile for much of that time.


64 posted on 05/05/2016 6:23:30 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Baldwin77

So much winning. We never get tired of winning! !


65 posted on 05/05/2016 6:34:41 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: maggief

Hopefully he will find Arizona Republicans dislike him as much as hispanics when his Republican primary opponent defeats him.


66 posted on 05/05/2016 6:35:00 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: maggief

Good riddance to the man who helped to inflict 8 years of Obama upon us.


67 posted on 05/05/2016 7:00:28 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: katana

Why is this old fart running again?


68 posted on 05/05/2016 7:36:40 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: maggief
McCain on tape: Trump damages my reelection hopes

If so, then that would make Donald Trump a greater hero than Batman and Captain America combined. ;)

69 posted on 05/05/2016 7:40:10 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The bathroom deal is a big fat nothing burger." -- Jim Robinson, 04/22/16)
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To: maggief

It’s his own fault. Rather than countering the claim that Trump’s policy is racist or anti-Hispanic and thus winning some of those votes back, McCain went along with it. At the same time, he alienated those whe believe in a strong immigration policy.


70 posted on 05/05/2016 7:47:40 AM PDT by djpg
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To: maggief

McCain is the only one responsible for his unelectability


71 posted on 05/05/2016 8:42:08 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: maggief

There is always a silver lining...

5.56mm


72 posted on 05/05/2016 8:50:17 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: ExTexasRedhead

He can console himself in the arms of Nancy Graham..


73 posted on 05/05/2016 9:05:28 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Fai Mao

Amen. That said, we will now see McCain fight the way he should have against obama in 2008.


74 posted on 05/05/2016 11:03:36 AM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: maggief

Buh bye, McLame. Go cry with Jorge and Yeb and mittens.


75 posted on 05/05/2016 11:04:28 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: maggief

Does this mean he knows he’s going to lose? Always got to blame someone else for what you’re doing wrong.. it’s the democrat way.


76 posted on 05/05/2016 3:39:23 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian

What’s McCain going to say when he loses his AZ seat and Trump wins the State?


77 posted on 05/09/2016 5:27:50 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS !!!)
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To: flaglady47

He’ll be very angry with him... and he will write him a letter, telling him how angry he is.


78 posted on 05/09/2016 3:42:00 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: maggief

The endorsements come in strange forms, but they keep on coming.


79 posted on 05/09/2016 4:11:27 PM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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