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The national war over who is a true Republican is playing out in Southern Arizona, with a leading social conservative trying to kill the bid by a former senator to get his seat back.
Merissa Hamilton wants to clear the way for social conservative Justine Wadsack to be the Republican nominee this year.
“I respectfully ask Vince Leach to rescind his candidacy,” she said in a Twitter post on Sunday. And she even took a shot at veteran Rep. David Livingston, R-Peoria, for trying to help Leach get the signatures he needs to be on the August primary ballot.
“We have a one seat majority and you are supporting a primary in a swing district,” she told Livington on Twitter.
But Leach told Capitol Media Services he has no intention of dropping out of the race to represent much of northern Pima County and a bit of southern Pinal County.
