Senate candidate Kelli Ward suggests McCain timed pre-death announcement to hurt her campaign
Source: Washington Post
Kelli Ward, a U.S. Senate hopeful and onetime rival of Sen. John McCain, is facing a torrent of criticism after she appeared to suggest that his announcement Friday to halt medical treatment for his brain cancer was timed to hurt her campaign. McCain, 81, died a day after his announcement.
One of Wards staffers on Saturday wrote a Facebook post wondering whether the timing of the statement from McCains family, made on the same day that Wards statewide bus tour kicked off, was simply a coincidence or a tactic to take media attention off her campaign.
Ward did not dispute the notion and said in reply: I think they wanted to have a particular narrative that they hope is negative to me."
McCain died just hours after Wards Facebook comments.
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miss-nasty
(251 posts)that's what they're all about - deplorable, heartless and absolutely disgusting. Thugs in conservative clothing!!!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)They never disappoint
Cirque du So-What
(25,979 posts)I've come to expect the worst from anyone trying to emulate tRump, like Douchey.
Jedi Guy
(3,249 posts)She's the "establishment" candidate, after all.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Who says things like that ?!?! What a dumbass.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)iluvtennis
(19,872 posts)nycbos
(6,038 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)so unlike the American values of honesty, integrity, respect, caring, and helping.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)-NOT ONE FCKN PERSON-
Most responses were like this one:
Arizona GOP, you couldn't find two people in your entire
state better to run for Senate than Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio?
Fucking seriously?!
4:33 PM - Aug 26, 2018
Link to tweet
bye girl
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)only dumber
Raphe M
(59 posts)Suffice it to say that it'd be a series of "rhymes with" remarks.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)everything timed against you ... as it relates to you ... paranoid, narcissistic, egocentric
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)what I was thinking. Kind of like the thing that occupies the WH right now.
louis c
(8,652 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:56 AM - Edit history (1)
What kind of a self centered, egotistical fucking asshole do you have to be to think that a person would time their death to hurt your campaign?
Only Trump, and now Kelli Ward, could think that way.
What a complete piece of shit.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)These people are filth. I'm sorry his death interfered with your campaign (which it didn't at all)
Raven
(13,900 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Could she be anymore tone deaf? Sounds like something Trump would say.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)and achieving new depths.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)Turbineguy
(37,366 posts)being a scumbag comes natural. She'll probably get elected. Or they'll pick Arpaio. He has more proven scumbaggery.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I think that you just might have been the LAST FUCKING THING John McCain was thinking about at that time.
Don't flatter yourself.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)This particularly true as to Kelli Ward who had attacked McCain as old and weak called on McCain to step down so that she could have his seat.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/07/21/kelli-ward-arizona-senator-john-mccain-should-step-down-and-i-should-get-his-job/500267001/
Kelli Ward: Sen. John McCain should step down and I should get his job
Republican U.S. Senate challenger Kelli Ward, who last year generated a national backlash after calling U.S. Sen. John McCain "old" and "weak" and suggesting he is likely to die in office, is now saying the ailing McCain should quit and let Gov. Doug Ducey appoint a replacement.
Speaking on WOWO-AM (1190) in Indiana, Ward, a former state senator from Lake Havasu City, said she should be considered for McCain's Senate job.
"Because I have a proven track record of years in the state Senate of being extremely effective and of listening to the voice of the people that I represent," Ward said in the interview that subsequently was reported nationally by CNN. "And you know, I made an extremely good showing against Senator McCain against all odds."
On his way to winning a sixth Senate term, McCain, R-Ariz., defeated Ward in the 2016 GOP primary election by 66,544 votes despite her late attack on his health and age. Almost immediately, she started running against the state's other Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, in the 2018 primary.
dchill
(38,532 posts)Republican much?
One thing about Rump: with that example in front of us (malignant?) narcissists are real easy to spot.
klook
(12,166 posts)That's what really happened.
What a maroon.