Even as he was dying in Sedona, it was astounding how much the Republican candidates in the Arizona Senate Primary did not seek Senator John McCain's advise in this election season. Kelli Ward actually had the audacity to say that she thought the McCain announcement of stopping his cancer treatment was timed to break the momentum of her campaign. Joe Arpaio said the KKK endorsed candidate was his hero. Even Martha McSally, whose background is the most in common with McCain, steered toward the alt-right wing of the party and ignored questions about the legacy of Jeff Flake, the man she is running to replace.
In 1996, Bill Clinton became the first Democratic President since 1948 to win the State of Arizona. No Democrat has won since. He did it by getting the endorsement of conservative icon and Reagan forerunner Barry Goldwater who in his final years felt the social conservative wing of the Republican Party had become too intransigent for him.
In her bid to become the first Democratic Senator in Arizona since Dennis DeConcini, Kyrsten Sinema would do well to learn from Bill Clinton and inquire about the possibility, when decency permits, of securing the endorsement of one or more of the McCain family. Senator McCain was always more conservative than Center Right (or moderate) but this incarnation of the Party of Lincolns reflects the values of his greatest mistake, Sarah Palin and the current occupant of the White House. If alive and healthy, he would probably not make it out of the first Republican Presidential Caucus today. Maybe his family realizes that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/29/republicans-rejected-mccain-and-embraced-trump-what-does-that-say-about-them/?utm_term=.f3ffedd62642
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