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John McCain's primary opponent suggests he might die in office
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 26, 2016 02:05pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Emily Schultheis |
| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Friday, August 26, 2016 03:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Sen. Kelli Ward, who’s challenging veteran GOP Sen. John McCain, has a new pitch for voters in Arizona: vote for me because my 79-year-old opponent might die in office.
“I’m a doctor,” Ward said in an interview with Politico. “The life expectancy of the American male is not 86. It’s less.”
Ward, a 47-year-old physician, is challenging McCain in his Aug. 30 Republican primary. While McCain is widely expected to win, Ward is putting up a challenge—and keeping McCain from focusing fully on what’s shaping up to be a competitive general election race against Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick.
Though age is not usually an issue that is addressed head-on by a candidate’s opponents, Ward said Arizonans “have the right to know he’s an 80-year old man who’s been in Washington for more than 40 years.” (McCain, first elected to the U.S. House in 1983, has actually been in DC for just under 34 years.)
Ward even said that older people decline “physiologically,” implying that McCain will be increasingly unable to control his anger and emotions in office.
“There are things that happen physiologically with the body and the mind. One of them is control over your anger and he’s already known as an angry man,” Ward said. “It becomes more and more difficult to control those kinds of outbursts. And we have to have someone with a steady hand, someone with the ability to think on their feet. Someone who can problem-solve.” |
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