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In Arizona, for one, McConnell had wanted popular Gov. Doug Ducey to run. But ex-President Donald Trump had slandered Ducey, vowing to oppose him every step of the way because he had refused to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election. So the GOP got Blake Masters, who just lost to Democrat Mark Kelly.

Anyone who comes down on the side of the GOP establishment in Arizona isn't going to have any traction with me. How many Freepers remember this progression of idiocy in that state?

1. Notorious RINO Jeff Flake announces that he won't run for re-election in 2018.
2. September 2018 ... Establishment hack John Kyl is named as interim U.S. Senator to replace the rancid carcass of John McCain in September 2018.
3. November 2018 ... Establishment hack Martha McSally loses to Kyrsten Sinema in the 2018 election.
4. December 2018 ... Kyl resigns from his interim post, effective December 31st.
5. January 2019 ... AZ Gov. Doug Ducey announces that Kyl's replacement as interim U.S. Senator is -- get this -- Martha McSally.
6. November 2020 ... Martha McSally loses to Democrat Mark Kelly in the special election to fill out the remainder of McCain's term until 2022. This gives McSally the ignominious distinction of losing two consecutive U.S. Senate elections in Arizona -- with the SECOND one as an appointed incumbent after she lost the FIRST one.

> Anyone who comes down on the side of the GOP establishment in Arizona isn't going to have any traction with me

I second the motion.

IMHO, most Federal and State GOP office holders have proven to be "All hat and no cattle", and they will turn on and/or attack their own constituents (i.e. Cornyn, Cheney) when forced into acting against the government organ they were elected oversee on behalf of said constituents.