Posted on 08/26/2018 11:38:10 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Kelli Ward suggested Saturday that the statement issued Friday by U.S. Sen. John McCain's family about ending treatment for brain cancer was intended to hurt her U.S. Senate campaign.
McCain died Saturday hours after her remarks.
Ward, a conservative former state senator from Lake Havasu City, is in a three-way race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Tuesday's Arizona primary.
Ward wrote on Facebook that "I think they wanted to have a particular narrative that they hope is negative to me."
Her comment was made under a Facebook post by one of her campaign staffers, who questioned if it was "just a coincidence" that the McCain family released the statement the same day that Ward was kicking off her campaign bus tour, "or if it was a plan to take media attention off her campaign?"
"I'm not saying it was on purpose but it's quite interesting," Jonathan Williams wrote.
Aaron Borders, the onetime second-vice chairman of a Maricopa County Republican Party group, took screenshots of Ward's remarks on Saturday and condemned her remark on social media, and in an interview with The Arizona Republic.
"It's wildly inappropriate," said Borders, who is supporting Ward's rival, U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, in the GOP race. "It's classless. It's not decent ... it's very narcissistic. It's a narcissist comment to sit there and think that the McCain family made this decision to interfere with your bus tour."
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Nasty, poisonous little ball of utter hate.
When that statement came out McCain was already dead
now that’s just sick.
(Mortal Kombat voice) "FINISH HER!"
Wow, if she had any chance she just lost it more than likely. Even if you think that the case how does making that the issue help you at all? Hate is not the way to close a campaign. At the very least her political timing is awful
Exactly. The only question is "dead for how long? A week? A month?".
Kelli Ward is pretty stupid to have made such a comment.
Kelli must have known she was going to lose, so she might as well make sure the loss is a landslide.
Complete tone deaf and due to be eliminated from political history.
“””When that statement came out McCain was already dead”””
Don’t think so. “McCain died Saturday hours after her remarks.”
I suspect he was on life support and they just unplugged him. He died too soon after announcing no further treatment.
She’s famous for making DUMB statements.
Go Kelli Ward !
What an idiotic thing to say.
The liberal left machine is also pushing this narrative.
Who do you work for?
And you have convinced me she is the candidate for AZ.
Thanks for outing yourself, wildcat.
“””When that statement came out McCain was already dead”””
Don’t think so.
“McCain died Saturday hours after her remarks.”
She is running the worst campaign from every angle. Damn. Why can't we Conservatives do better?
I have said she is going to lose for just this type of nutty in the past. Now again? Does she not learn?
McSally a shoe in now.
“Don’t think so. “McCain died Saturday hours after her remarks.””
There’s a concerted effort to smear her.
All over all the SM’s.
We can see their operatives here in the guy from Kentucky who is all so CONCERNED about Arizona.
You do not know what the hell you are talking about. This woman is a doctor, she is smart. She has run a great campaign. So a staffer says something and now we all run away. Good job buying this crap. This is why we get what we get.
I want to see the body and have it DNA tested before I’ll be convinced he didn’t fake it in order to avoid prosecution, and take flight to a non-extradition country.
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