Thursday, May 5, 2016
Politico - McCain: Trump damages my reelection hopes (1) JM's logic, more US is invaded, more we must support it; (2) Not to worry, Traitor McCain, you're likely to lose in primary. Go Kelli! --tma
Go Kelli!
Publicly, John McCain insists Donald Trump will have a negligible effect on his campaign for reelection. But behind closed doors at a fundraiser in Arizona last month, the Republican senator and two-time presidential hopeful offered a far more dire assessment to his supporters.
“If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, here in Arizona, with over 30 percent of the vote being the Hispanic vote, no doubt that this may be the race of my life,” McCain said, according to a recording of the event obtained by POLITICO. “If you listen or watch Hispanic media in the state and in the country, you will see that it is all anti-Trump. The Hispanic community is roused and angry in a way that I've never seen in 30 years.”
At a private fundraiser last month, the Arizona senator warned that Donald Trump as the GOP nominee could antagonize Latino voters in his state and make his reelection campaign "the race of my life." ...
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-latinos-mccain-222810