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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:42 PM Jun 2020

McSally Clings to Trump Train as Arizona Becomes COVID 'Nightmare'

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s insistence that his campaign recommence holding massive rallies will bring him to the heart of the state with one of the highest increases in new COVID-19 infections in the country.

But in addition to the well-documented health risks of a crowded indoor event in a state where more than 2,500 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus were announced as recently as Thursday, the president’s appearance at a “Students for Trump” event on June 23 threatens the health not just of Arizona voters, but of the reelection chances of one of his staunchest allies—who may not even be attending.

Sen. Martha McSally, seeking reelection to serve the remainder of the late Sen. John McCain’s term, already faces some of the steepest odds of any incumbent Republican in the country this cycle. Appointed to her seat by the state’s increasingly unpopular Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, McSally was blasted even by some fellow conservatives as having won a Senate seat as a “consolation prize” after losing against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in 2018, an original sin for which some Arizonans—including McCain’s family—have yet to forgive her.

McSally’s refusal to publicly take a side on numerous issues of major interest to voters in the state—her noncommittal response to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Thursday being a representative example—has added to the perception that she cares more about politics than policy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcsally-clings-trump-train-arizona-090142387.html

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McSally Clings to Trump Train as Arizona Becomes COVID 'Nightmare' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Mark Kelly is the RIGHT candidate for Arizona.... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2020 #1
Mark Kelly is the right candidate. Blue_true Jun 2020 #2
She's A Dead Senator Walking nt sfstaxprep Jun 2020 #3
"I never even met those guys who robbed the bank, and they were only casual acquaintances. struggle4progress Jun 2020 #4

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,789 posts)
1. Mark Kelly is the RIGHT candidate for Arizona....
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 10:08 PM
Jun 2020

He is leading McSally y double digits and will increase that lead by Fall. Trump can do all he can to trash Kelly, but that will only hurt McSally even more.

You do not trash the husband of Gabby Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt, and a renown Astronaut and retired Navy Captain.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
2. Mark Kelly is the right candidate.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 10:13 PM
Jun 2020

He has the DeConcini, Napolitano democratic profile which can win in that state.

struggle4progress

(118,338 posts)
4. "I never even met those guys who robbed the bank, and they were only casual acquaintances.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 10:26 PM
Jun 2020

I had nothing to do with this, and I wasn't even anywhere near the bank. I was sitting in my car outside, and I had no idea why these guys thought I was their get-away driver, because they never mentioned it when we had breakfast together. I didn't even go into the bank, except for a moment to see if they had free coffee. I don't own an RPG: it used to be under my bed but somebody stole it last week; and I don't have any idea why the surveillance video shows me pointing it at the teller. Can I go home now?"

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