Arizona exposes danger for GOP in 2018 primaries: Embracing Trump could backfire
by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Jan 31, 2018
4 minutes
PHOENIX - Former combat pilot Martha McSally was put off by Donald Trump when he ran for president.
The Republican congresswoman from Tucson called his boasts of sexually assaulting women disgusting. She opposed his plan to stop Muslims from entering the United States. She condemned his threat to ditch European allies.
How quickly things change. In the months since an Arizona seat in the U.S. Senate opened up, McSally has been talking up her chummy visits with Trump. In the Rose Garden. In the Cabinet Room. In the Oval Office.
She is running against two die-hard Trump loyalists in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and she's out to prove that she backs him as much as they
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