Posted on 08/29/2016 11:57:04 AM PDT by bkopto
The most immediate embodiment of McCains problems is Kelli Ward, 47, a former state senator who knows that Trump crushed the field in the March presidential primary by stoking the fires of Arizonas long-running battles over illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.
Ward is McCains main primary challenger Tuesday; she has attended Trump rallies and embraced his rhetoric while highlighting McCains bipartisan work on immigration bills that would grant undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.
Hes the champion of compromise, she said of McCain in an hour-long interview in a Scottsdale campaign office, not intending it as a compliment.
Public and private polling give McCain a big lead over Ward, but this weeks CNN poll showed him with just 55 percent of the likely Republican primary vote. Were going to do well, not great, but were going to do well, he told supporters at a rally.
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I believe Hack, cantorize McCain!
IMHO this man has been the most deceitful person in the U.S. Senate for many years. How the voters in Arizona can stomach him is a real mystery.
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