{"id":14568,"date":"2016-11-09T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2016-11-09T05:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:27:49","slug":"john-mccain-reelected-in-arizona-senate-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/john-mccain-reelected-in-arizona-senate-contest.html","title":{"rendered":"John McCain reelected in Arizona Senate contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">John McCain reelected in Arizona Senate contest<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>John McCain reelected in Arizona Senate contest:-<\/strong> Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made his way through Donald Trump and a hard place and pulled off a tricky win in a topsy-turvy political year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">McCain\u2019s victory over his Democratic opponent Rep. Ann <\/span>Kirkpatrick<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> came after weeks of leading the polls by double digits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">McCain became one of Donald Trump\u2019s many punching bags this election when in July, the GOP nominee for president mocked the decorated Vietnam War veteran and said he\u2019s \u201cnot a war hero\u201d because he was \u201ccaptured.\u201d McCain waited to formally abandon Trump until a 2005 tape recording of the businessman bragging about groping women without their permission was published in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Before that, McCain was criticized by Kirkpatrick for supporting the GOP nominee just to get through his party\u2019s primary, where he faced a Trump supporter. He avoided the topic of Trump and criticized Kirkpatrick, who represents the state\u2019s largest district, for being too liberal to represent Arizona until the tape was leaked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">McCain, who ran for president against Barack Obama in 2008, was one of the most senior Republicans to take a stand against Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2016\/live-updates\/general-election\/real-time-updates-on-the-2016-election-voting-and-race-results\/john-mccain-reelected-in-arizona-senate-contest\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/john-mccain-reelected-in-arizona-senate-contest.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain reelected in Arizona Senate contest John McCain reelected in Arizona Senate contest:- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made his way through Donald Trump and a hard place and pulled off a tricky win in a topsy-turvy political year. McCain\u2019s victory over his Democratic opponent Rep. 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