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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcSally Clings to Trump Train as Arizona Becomes COVID 'Nightmare'
On Tuesday, President Donald Trumps 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 presidents 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 allieswho may not even be attending.
Sen. Martha McSally, seeking reelection to serve the remainder of the late Sen. John McCains term, already faces some of the steepest odds of any incumbent Republican in the country this cycle. Appointed to her seat by the states 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 Arizonansincluding McCains familyhave yet to forgive her.
McSallys refusal to publicly take a side on numerous issues of major interest to voters in the stateher noncommittal response to the Supreme Courts decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Thursday being a representative examplehas added to the perception that she cares more about politics than policy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcsally-clings-trump-train-arizona-090142387.html
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)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)He has the DeConcini, Napolitano democratic profile which can win in that state.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)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?"