“There are no “McCain Republicans” in AZ.”
That is nuts! Maricopa is filled with McCain Republicans. Look at the primary:
Kari Lake got 48% of the vote to Robson’s 43%. Robson is a McCain Republican. She practically DEFINES the term!
Master’s got 40% of the vote. Lamon got 28% and I don’t think he’s a McCain guy, so call it 68% Non-McCain.
SoS: Finchem got 43% of the vote. He was backed by Trump. 57% other.
AG: Hamadeh (Trump’s pick) got 34% of the vote. Not sure how many of the other candidates were McCain types or not. But almost 70% wanted someone else to win the primary!
NONE OF THE MAGA CANDIDATES got over 50% of the Republican vote. And two months later, voting started in the general! Any time the general election candidate gets less than half the vote in the primary, the general could get ugly. Particularly if there is only 60 days to heal the divisions.
PS: I voted the Trump ticket all the way down the line. Didn’t end up working out real well.
There was EXTREME vote fraud in the primaries too - in an attempt to keep the good guys from running in the general.
Robson also spent TONS of money, had constant ads on TV, and had every media outlet repeating her lies about Lake. Many true conservatives believed the BS and voted for Robson when if they knew the truth they would have spit her out. Despite all this, Robson STILL lost.