Bigot-coddling Arizona senate candidate Kelli Ward suggested that John McCain’s statement on ending treatment was ‘timed’ to hurt her campaign
It’s bad enough that Arizona senate candidate Kelli Ward is joined at the hip to white supremacists.
… [I]t’s her final stop of the day that has drawn condemnation and questions: She’s set to appear at the Pioneer Museum in Phoenix with the “alt-right” provocateur Mike Cernovich, who is best known for promoting the entirely false Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Ward, whose campaign didn’t respond to HuffPost’s request for comment, last week told an NBC reporter that she needed a hook to draw the media’s attention and said on MSNBC that Cernovich “has an audience that we want to reach.”
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During her bid to unseat Sen. John McCain (R) in 2016, she met Milo Yiannopoulos — an “alt-right” leader who had been banned from Twitter for directing his followers to bombard Leslie Jones of “Saturday Night Live” with racist and sexist invective — in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention. She posted a photo of the two of them together on Facebook, accompanied by the hashtag #FreeMilo. …
This June, Ward disavowed Breitbart-promoted Wisconsin GOP congressional candidate Paul Nehlen, who embraced anti-Semitism. … “Paul Nehlen and I both ran against powerful establishment incumbents in 2016, so our paths crossed a few times in that regard,” Ward told CNN. “However, recent views espoused by Nehlen are outrageous and antithetical to my own. Nehlen and other fringe elements who hold similar views have absolutely no place in the Republican Party.”
But when Ward was still openly associating with him, he had shared tweets defending an infamous and prolific anti-Semitic Twitter personality, Ricky Vaughn, and had suggested that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were murderers.
Just hours before Sen. John McCain died, this happened.
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?”
Arizona deserves better than an opportunistic bigot playing the victim card against a dying, and now dead, war hero.
