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.
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Not.
Reason #115 to vote Trump
Goodbye, Juan.
The revenge of the wacko birds.
Wow what an endorsement!! Go Trump!
Funny. My coffee tastes better this morning, the sun is brighter, the birds are singing more cheerfully.
Hopefully it won’t be a worry as he’ll have lost in the primary. Are Arizonans crazy enough to nominate this fraud again?
McLame damaged his own chances all by himself just like hundreds of others in Congress.
Hurt Stutzman’s chances too. And if McLame said it it he probably thinks the opposite.
Cry me an Arizona river!
YES!
The truth about John McCain damages his re-election chances.
Good riddance to that senile scumbag! I predict he won’t make it to the general election because he’ll lose to his primary challenger.
Hopefully he will not be on the ballot, go Trump
Bye felicia. I mean, if that’s the price we gotta pay.........
Not as much as “results” of the 2015 congress. And 2016 isn’t looking better. Seems like nobody in DC understands that and would rather blame Trump and his supporters.
BS
It means McCain WON’T run again because he knows Trump will come after him. He is giving himself an excuse not to run.
Ding, ding, ding... An energized AZ electorate might come out in droves to vote against McCain for Dr. Kelli Ward, especially if Trump goes of script and tells people again in a different way than the last time that he is not needed in DC etc, or it is time for him to go, etc etc.
Then IMHO it is over for John....
If Sheriff Joe doesn’t stop them first, maybe he can get enough of his Sunni ISIS pals to illegally cross the border and vote for him,
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