Challenger scorches McCain for support of Muslim refugees
3-way GOP race heats up in Arizona
Published: 9 hours ago
All the political pundits agree that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., faces the biggest challenge of his political career trying to get re-elected to a sixth term in the U.S. Senate.
In a year when Washington insiders and career politicians are running for cover, McCain figures to be dead meat, right?
Not so fast, say some.
He has one thing in his favor. Well, two things, actually.
Number one is name recognition. Approximately 99 percent of Arizonans are familiar with the name John McCain. That could cut both ways. But in the year of the “outsider,” it may hurt him as much as it helps him.
More important is the issue of vote fragmentation. Heading toward the Aug. 30 primary, anti-establishment Republicans in Arizona will need to agree on whom to rally around as the strongest challenger to McCain.
By fragmenting the opposition to McCain, only McCain benefits.
McCain is being challenged in the primary by Dr. Kelli Ward, a former state senator and physician, and entrepreneur Alex Meluskey, who runs a printing business in Scottsdale but has never run for political office until now.
Meluskey, who is lagging in the polls, just released a blistering new TV ad that hits McCain hard for his support for Syrian refugees, 97 percent of whom are Sunni Muslims and whom the FBI says are virtually impossible to screen for security risks.
The ad describes the attack by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, when he killed 13 fellow soldiers in a jihad attack that was originally called “workplace violence” by the Obama Justice Department.
It then switches to McCain, who famously traveled to Syria in 2013 to meet with rebels seeking to bring down Syrian President Bashur Assad.
“I’m saying that there are some refugees that I think we could take into this country,” McCain says in the ad. The host then asks McCain who would vet the refugees, to which McCain answered, “Well, first of all, I’d vet a number of them because I know them.”
Yet Hasan was an American citizen, a doctor and a U.S. Army major and nobody saw the attack coming, the ad points out.
“If we can’t vet him how do you expect to vet these refugees?” the narrator concludes.
Watch ad below:
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http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/challenger-scorches-mccain-for-support-of-muslim-refugees/#sL3GR7f2AohPBGSU.99
