McCain scores decisive primary win
Source: Politico
In the end, it wasnt even close.
Republican Sen. John McCain won an easy victory over his primary challenger on Tuesday in Arizona, defeating former state Sen. Kelli Ward the most prominent anti-incumbent Senate primary challenger of 2016 by a double-digit margin. McCain had 55 percent of the GOP vote to Ward's 35 percent when The Associated Press called the race soon after it started tallying the votes.
It was an anticlimactic victory for McCain, who was seen at the beginning of the election cycle as the Republican senator most vulnerable to a challenge from the right. A Public Policy Polling survey last year prompted intense speculation about McCain's future when it found 50 percent of Arizona GOP primary voters disapproving of his job performance.
But, in an early blow to her candidacy, Ward never earned the support of the conservative groups that had been involved in successful challenges to GOP senators like Indiana's Richard Lugar, and she struggled to compete against the better-financed McCain. Senate Conservatives Fund, which warned in a fundraising letter last year that McCain was in real trouble, didnt endorse her. Neither did the Club for Growth, the best-funded conservative outside group.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/mccain-scores-decisive-primary-win-227573
So much for the teabaggers' and the Trumpshirts' golden girl Ward
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)Ward launched an ageist attack on McCain, claiming that 80 is too old to serve in the Senate.
Oops.
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(2,657 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)MidwestTransplant
(8,015 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)He has to win the general too