Martha McSally, Mark Kelly clash on COVID-19, health care, China

[brooklynite]

Source: Arizona Republic

Republican Martha McSally relentlessly attacked Democrat Mark Kelly on Tuesday in the only face-to-face debate in Arizona's U.S. Senate race, painting him as an unprincipled millionaire willing to take money from Communist China and serve as an accomplice to his party’s liberal agenda.

Again and again through the 90-minute event, McSally, R-Ariz., called her opponent, the race's front-runner in polls and fundraising, "counterfeit Kelly" and suggested he would empower Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to take radical steps toward socialism.

"He's Chuck Schumer's star recruit. ... He just won't answer honestly to you, Arizona," McSally said early in the debate.

Kelly rejected the labels and maintained he would be more independent in Washington than McSally, who has proven a reliable vote for President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in her two years in the Senate.



Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/06/martha-mcsally-debate-mark-kelly-supreme-court-future-line/3631610001/

[apnu]

1. McSally's desperation in that was palpable.

That whole thing was on last act of total desperation.

[Kali]

2. I don't see the television ads

but connecting her history of nasty behavior to the press with drumpf's seems like it would be a good visual. they are the same - the name calling, disrespect for the press and opposition, liars, using fox and the internet for information etc

she was once semi-respectable with a military record and such, but she has been such a suck-up to the orangeanus even a lot of AZ republicans reject her.