Political pincers tighten on Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake
The political fusillade aimed at first-term Sen. Jeff Flake is intensifying after his vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as President Donald Trump's education secretary. But there are also shots coming from other directions.
Flake, R-Ariz., a vocal GOP Trump critic during last year's presidential campaign, has become a target of anti-Trump activists by voting, so far, to confirm all of Trump's nominees, including DeVos, who survived an unprecedented 50-50 tie that was broken by Vice President Mike Pence.
Various groups have been pressuring Flake to reject various Trump picks, from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Anti-Trump constituents have kept his voicemail boxes perpetually full. Liberal activists are clamoring for Flake to hold an in-person town-hall meeting in Arizona.
National Democrats view Flake, who is up for re-election next year, as one of the two most vulnerable Republican senators in 2018 (with Dean Heller of Nevada the other one). They believe his vote for DeVos will come back to haunt him, especially given the outcry from many Arizona voters, and have been hitting him hard on it.
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