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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You betcha!
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?
Donate, campaign for and vote for Dr. Kelli Ward in the primary. It's time to give Sen. McCain a well earned retirement.
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.
So much winning. We never get tired of winning! !
Hopefully he will find Arizona Republicans dislike him as much as hispanics when his Republican primary opponent defeats him.
Good riddance to the man who helped to inflict 8 years of Obama upon us.
Why is this old fart running again?
If so, then that would make Donald Trump a greater hero than Batman and Captain America combined. ;)
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.
McCain is the only one responsible for his unelectability
There is always a silver lining...
5.56mm
He can console himself in the arms of Nancy Graham..
Amen. That said, we will now see McCain fight the way he should have against obama in 2008.
Buh bye, McLame. Go cry with Jorge and Yeb and mittens.
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.
What’s McCain going to say when he loses his AZ seat and Trump wins the State?
He’ll be very angry with him... and he will write him a letter, telling him how angry he is.
The endorsements come in strange forms, but they keep on coming.
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