Trump's Visit To Arizona Is A Headache For Trump GOP Critic, Sen. Jeff Flake

[riversedge]

Source: npr



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August 22, 20175:01 AM ET


President Trump has had harsh words for Sen. Jeff Flake and recently praised Flake's primary challenger ahead of Trump's visit to Phoenix.
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President Trump's visit to Arizona is already fraught with controversy. The mayor of Phoenix asked the president to hold off staging a campaign rally in his city following the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va. Then, there are the hints Trump has dropped that he might issue a controversial pardon for the former local Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was recently convicted of criminal contempt of court for disobeying a federal judge.

Last but not least, Trump may step further into next year's Arizona Senate race by tormenting one of his most outspoken Republican critics, the state's junior U.S. senator, Jeff Flake, and potentially upsetting the delicate balance of power in the Senate.

At a recent meeting in Mesa, a conservative suburb east of Phoenix, more than 70 GOP grass-roots leaders gathered to discuss party business. Even though Flake has a home in Mesa and used to represent the area in the U.S. House, many of the Republican activists present expressed disgust for Flake, who is serving his first term in the Senate and is up for re-election in 2018.

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I do not think Flake will show up at the rally. Mayor out. Gov out. McCain ill. tsk tsk. Trump left with his deplorable. Prob. will bring Sessions along??

[longship]

1. Do you mean the AZ Senator that voted for Repeal and Replace?

That guy who some how has become known as being anti-Drumpf? When he votes to repeal ACA?

Puleeeze! NPR, don't strain people's credulity!

[benld74]

2. Large anti tRump crowd outside too

[Honeycombe8]

3. That's why Trump is going. Because Flake wrote that book about him.nt

[not fooled]

4. Flake's no prize

but may dump's and mercer's efforts to take him down be spectacularly ineffective. Flake should lose his seat for other reasons, not because mercer dumped $$$--that would go to conning the rubes--into the campaign of a more extreme wingnut.