By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey’s enthusiasm for appointing Martha McSally to the U.S. Senate has waned, The Washington Post reported.
According to the Post, McSally is still a finalist for the appointment if U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, whom Ducey appointed in September to replace John McCain, resigns at the end of the year, as expected. But Ducey has “lost enthusiasm” for a McSally appointment over the past few weeks, despite lobbying by prominent Republicans, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to give her the seat.
One reason is a widely criticized post-election memo from McSally’s campaign team that blamed everyone but the candidate and her campaign for their loss to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in November, thePost reported. The memo blamed disparate spending, President Trump’s unpopularity, media coverage, intraparty squabbling within the GOP, and McSally’s geographic disadvantage as a Tucson-based congresswoman running against an opponent who had spent years boosting her ID in the state’s population center of Maricopa County.
