McSally Activist Flames Sinema at Arizona GOP Roundtable

PHOENIX – Representative Martha McSally offered a barbecue to a crowd of fans on Friday night before presenting a final two-part elbow-to-elbow argument in the Senate: The economy is strong and my opponent is too liberal for Arizona .

McSally, appearing alongside Governor Doug Ducey (R-Arizona) and other GOP candidates for positions at the state level, touted the high employment numbers of the day in his speech by urging donors to pursue Their efforts. The House Republican in the second term fights with Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) in one of the closest Senate fights in the country, and a McSally victory would give her party valuable cushioning for its current majority two voices in the room.

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The former fighter pilot attributed the high unemployment rate of President Donald Trump: "People are asking: do I feel better than two years ago? The answer is yes. "Because America and Arizona are back."

Trump took over immigration with an uncompromising message during the last days of his term, pledging to revoke the constitutional amendment granting citizenship to those born in the United States. United. McSally did nothing but mention the problem on Friday night, promising that "we will secure our border".

But the message she and other Republicans shared after serving dinner to sponsors at the GOP headquarters in Arizona was aimed at staying in a historically red state where Ducey is expected to be re-elected next week. The decision of Green Party candidate Angela Green to abandon the race on Thursday and support Sinema provided a new product to McSally, who accused Sinema of tolerating "betrayal" and continues to Take it to the Democrat to have moved to the center after being spokesman for the Green Party. in the election of 2000.

After jokingly calling Sinema a Green Party candidate, McSally added, "I'm sorry, the former Green Party activist – who is currently involved in the Liberal witness protection program. She continues to hide but it just shows her true colors, right?

Polls have shown that the green net represents only 1% of the Senate vote, and it is unclear how his late withdrawal will strengthen Sinema, as his name will remain on the ballot in that state.

Sinema built his campaign on a pledge to put Arizonan's interests ahead of any National Democratic Party agenda, saying in July that she would not support minority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) at the same time. head of the caucus if she was elected to the Senate. The Democrat supported Trump's decision to send troops to the southern border, even though she criticized Trump's speech that it would negate the constitutional guarantees of citizenship.

But Sinema has spent the last weeks of the campaign joining with fellow Democrats to focus on the laser protection of popular protections against pre-existing conditions of Obamacare, a problem that McSally has acknowledged: the law. Republicans did not discuss health issues during their speech at Friday's GOP dinner, where Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) Also made a speech in favor of the party ticket.