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By Bill Goodykoontz|Arizona Republic
Now this is a Twitter war worth watching — for lowbrow reasons, sure, but worth it still.
In her combative, if so far brief, political career Kari Lake, the former TV news anchor who is now a Republican candidate for Arizona governor, has copied the Donald Trump playbook, right down to her use of Twitter as a kind of social media battering ram. You get the idea, she would tweet anything to get attention, which she has. And to get elected, she might.
Enter Meghan McCain.
McCain is no stranger to, ahem, colorful, outspoken takes on Twitter herself. And Wednesday she went after Lake with a vengeance, calling her an “absolute sideshow freak” and a lunatic among other things in a series of tweets.
It was wild. And so Arizona.
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Why did McCain go after Lake?
Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain.
This all started, seemingly, when Wendy Rogers — an Arizona state senator who has been censured by her colleagues after making violent and discriminatory comments, just to provide a little context here — tweeted that Lake should start using the term “Maverick.” This, of course, was the nickname often applied to the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, Meghan McCain’s father.
