From LS:
I”ll do this again since some of you apparntly didn’t get the word. I spoke with a source who knows a person at the meeting between Ducey & McTurd’s family a month or so ago. This GOP source said Ducey was NOT going to replace McTurd with a family member.
Further, the source later met with Ducey personally, and it was again reiterated that he would NOT name Cindy or Meghan McTurd to McTurd’s seat.
So just stop.
NOR will he name either Ward or McSally. The timing doesn’t work in the first place. After Tuesday, one of them will have lost the primary. It would be insane to name the loser to a seat where the winner still has to compete and possibly lose. It would be worse to name the winner and then have the senate nominee be someone whom the voters rejected. No win scenario. Ducey will stay away.
NOR will he name a sitting congressman like Biggs (a freshmen? Come on), Schweikert (the likely choice) or Gosar (whom I’m told really doesn’t want the job). ANY Congressman would spark significant anger from all the other supporters in other districts.
THIS IS ALL DONE WITH DUCEY UP FOR REELECTION. He isn’t going to piss off all the Trumpers and AZ GOP.
MOREOVER, this is all going on with a crucial USSC vote coming up, probably after Sept. 17 (hearings begin after Labor Day). We may need that vote, and Ducey will not fiddle around in naming someone.
My guess is he’ll wait until a few days after the funeral. It must be a Republican according to law. We would be lucky if it was Jeff DeWitt, NASA CFO, but I doubt it. I know former US Sen. (a good one) Jon Kyl, and spoke to him some months ago, asking if he felt like entering the McSally/Ward race, and he said no, he was happy as a lobbyist in DC. I bet! So it won’t be Kyl. Brewer? Perhaps-—was well liked as gov.-—but is a Trumper who was snubbed by Ducey at the convention. We’ll see.
Good points, but consider this; McSally will likely win the primary, But will do so in a close race. The combined Ward-Arpaio vote will likely exceed the McSally victory total. That combined vote total represents the Trump supporters of Arizona, if the Ducey then ignores that he will be hurting his future possibilities By angering that wing of the party.
Pray for DeWitt.
This of course is fantastic news.
I’m not a Kyl fan, but he seems the most likely, presuming this intel holds. And it could indeed be far worse.
Best of course would be a young and impressive true conservative who would use the leg up for election in 2020 and 2022.
JD Hayworth.
Kyl has been Kavanaugh’s Senate sherpa. Brewer has extremely high negatives in AZ and Ducey is too cautious for that.
The big question is what does Ducey get out of it? He wants to run for President soon and the Senate seat too valuable not to trade with.
So interesting, thanks for all your insights.
Still holding out for Dr. Ward to be appointed in McCain's Seat as she is sure to lose to McSally on Tuesday. However, by then she will have lost two elections. One to McCain and one to McSally. Not a good resume enhancer. But I feel she would be tops as a Senator...And I have $upported her in such hope.
So basically we have no idea what will happen.
LS called John Kyl a good former senator? The guy turned out to be a RINO squish. LS is all lovey dovey about Sessions as well so take that with a grain of salt.