Posted on 05/28/2018 9:32:13 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
As Arizonans prepare for their final salute to Sen. John McCain, Republicans and political pundits in the state privately tell Newsmax they expect the appointment of his wife, Cindy, to succeed him in the Senate.
Of course, no one in the Grand Canyon State who spoke to us wants to go on record discussing what will happen when the ailing McCain no longer holds his seat. But those who did agree, almost unanimously, that Cindy McCain following John in the Senate through appointment by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is a near-certainty.
"I've always assumed that was the arrangement," said a friend of the McCain family since John's 1973 return from captivity in Vietnam.
A former Republican senator who served with McCain agreed.
"I don't know if this [succession] has been formalized, but that's what people who know John tell me."
(Both of those who spoke to Newsmax did so under promise of anonymity).
One source close to the McCain family said supporters of the senator have quietly let Gov. Ducey know Cindy is the choice of "Team McCain."
Others mentioned for appointment include Ducey's top aide Kirk Adams, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, and Karrin Taylor Robson, multi-millionaire businesswoman and member of the State Board of Regents.
Because of the time factor involved in a Senate seat opening in Arizona, speculation has begun to mount about what will happen when the Senate seat Republican McCain has held since 1986 finally is open.
Should the seat become open before June 1, state law requires a special election this fall. Democrats from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., make little secret of their desire of having another Senate seat on the fall ballot in 2018 because they sense it is a good year for the party outside the White House.
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She’s the one who’s been writing and tweeting, no doubt.
Completely unAmerican.
Banana
Cindy McCain is likely to be a worse RINO than her husband.
NO FRIGGEN WAY!!!!
No more Dynasties! No more sympathy votes!
No more phony Conservatives!!!
NO! HELL NO!
i expect that the state that kept electing john will likely elect her for life as well- some states are just gluttons for punishment
The McCain clan is utterly evil.
Face palm! Well, it was her or Meghan I guess.
That seat belongs to them. The American people have no right to take it away from them.
To carry on the tradition of hatred of the American people....
Heck NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO say it ain’t so!
She’s a social liberal. Bad news!
Ah so we do have inherited Senate seats.
The revenge of the c@nt as McCain called his wife
Disgusting.
I bet songbird is on life support. Until, you know, June 1.
Is there no cure for this disease?
From real bad too really really bad.
Her husband is corrupt, her dad was a mob criminal; what could go wrong? Same pedigree as Killary BTW.
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