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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Flake's GOP challenger: McCain should resign
Kelli Ward, who is running for Senate in 2018, is urging GOP Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to resign after being diagnosed with brain cancer and pitching herself as a replacement.
"I hope that Sen. McCain is going to look long and hard at this, that his family and his advisers are going to look at this, and they're going to advise him to step away as quickly as possible," Ward told an Indiana radio station this week.
Ward, who has also offered condolences to McCain, added that "as a Christian, I know there can always be miracles. But the likelihood that John McCain is going to come back to the Senate ... is low."
Ward, who has aligned herself closely with President Trump, lost in the 2016 Senate GOP primary to McCain and is now running against GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) in 2018.
She said McCain's diagnosis could bring the GOP agenda to a halt, adding that with the 80-year-old senator "out of commission, we don't have 51 votes on the the Republican side."
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/343155-flake-gop-challenger-john-mccain-should-resign
Skittles
(153,113 posts)the man deserves some time
Merlot
(9,696 posts)What I find extremely distateful is clinging to power and voting to take away peoples health care.
He's a public servant and should put the needs of the country above his health issues. Unless the doctors say he can come back soon, he should resign.
marybourg
(12,586 posts)who will vote for a healthcare law we can live with. Quite the opposite. So as far as I'm concerned McCain should stay in office and away for D.C. as long as he wants.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)and why is everyone so sure he was going to vote for that piece of shit bill
dubyadiprecession
(5,697 posts)In the senate this year, in Arlington next year.
yardwork
(61,539 posts)gademocrat7
(10,645 posts)avebury
(10,951 posts)I may not agree with everything that McCain has said or done but Ward's statement is highly distasteful.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Yeah. Too soon.
And we're the loyal opposition, for God's sake.
Iggo
(47,535 posts)hatrack
(59,578 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)She'd fit right in with some of the TeaParty types in DC.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)So they can put another Republican/Russian SYMP in there to do The Kremlin's bidding
Initech
(100,040 posts)Sounds like the MO of the GOP tea party.