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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:42 AM Aug 2016

McCain scores decisive primary win

Source: Politico

In the end, it wasn’t 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,” didn’t 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
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McCain scores decisive primary win (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2016 OP
In what is possibly the retirement capital of the US lapfog_1 Aug 2016 #1
Hopefully they planned on her being on stage with Don the Con tomorrow. 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #2
Duplicate LBN thread (yeah, I know, this one has a different nuance as if that matters) Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #3
Now he will find the "courage" to denounce Trump MidwestTransplant Aug 2016 #4
Don't bet on it mdbl Aug 2016 #5

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
1. In what is possibly the retirement capital of the US
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:50 AM
Aug 2016

Ward launched an ageist attack on McCain, claiming that 80 is too old to serve in the Senate.

Oops.

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