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Arizona: Cindy McCain Nov 5, 2020 21:29:40 GMT

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Fox News faced criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and its allies on Tuesday for projecting that Arizona's 11 electoral votes would go to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, as other news networks sought more evidence before making a call.

Fox Corp's Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts said the Trump campaign was "livid" that the network projected Arizona for Biden, saying: "Pushback is a very light word to use."
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My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @joebiden.
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) September 22, 2020

Arizona has always been the X-factor.

If MI & WI both go Biden—as the campaigns have expected—then Pennsylvania takes center stage, right?

Not necessarily. Biden could lose PA and still win the presidency if he wins AZ (plus Maine-2 and Nebraska-2.)

Would be 270 on the nose:

— Tim Alberta (@timalberta) November 4, 2020

The Associated Press backed Fox's call on Arizona three hours later. The ire of Trumpworld quickly turned to Cindy McCain, the widow of late Arizona Senator John McCain, who was a frequent Trump critic. Cindy McCain endorsed Biden in September, a very high profile endorsement in the crucial swing state.

Conservative pundit Mark Levin tweeted after Trump lost Arizona, "Congratulations Cindy McCain. You helped cost us Arizona." Dan Bongino offered a similar sentiment, "Conservatism would be so much better off without “principled” conservatives like Cindy McCain."

Proud of Cindy McCain, a Republican Voter Against Trump. #CountryOverParty t.co/qEajtuwBf5
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@rvat2020) November 4, 2020

Conservatism would be so much better off without “principled” conservatives like Cindy McCain.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) November 4, 2020

Historian Michael Beschloss, took a different approach, adding, "And for those who believe that “revenge is a dish best served cold,” Cindy McCain played a major role in making sure that Trump lost Arizona, home state of her beloved husband, an American hero. What must John McCain be thinking as he looks down and watches this happen tonight?"
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And for those who believe that “revenge is a dish best served cold,” Cindy McCain played a major role in making sure that Trump lost Arizona, home state of her beloved husband, an American hero. What must John McCain be thinking as he looks down and watches this happen tonight?
— Michael Beschloss (@beschlossdc) November 4, 2020

Cindy McCain isn’t a .@tedcruz. Nobody insults her spouse and gets away with it. t.co/xN2ExYFW4t
— Brittany Pounders (@libertybritt) November 4, 2020

Joe Biden is the first Democrat in 24 years to win Arizona. I’d like to imagine it as John McCain getting the last laugh.
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) November 4, 2020

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Arizona: Cindy McCain Nov 6, 2020 4:15:39 GMT

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President Trump’s campaign aides attempted to stop him from attacking the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in hopes of clinching Arizona, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Campaign aides reportedly raised various theories about what led to Fox News announcing Arizona for Democratic nominee Joe Biden late Tuesday night, including that Trump did not stop criticizing McCain, a fellow Republican and former prisoner of war, even after he died in 2018.

The Associated Press ultimately joined Fox News in calling the state for Biden.

Some aides told the Times that Trump also had dismissed calls from Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and former campaign manager Brad Parscale to spend more time in Arizona during the campaign. The aides said he resisted their requests because he did not like traveling west and spending the night on the road.

Some campaign staff also reportedly questioned the campaign’s spending, proposing that if more money was available to spend in the states Biden barely won, maybe the president could have taken them. But others stood up for the previous spending, as it helped gain Latino support in Florida, the Times reported.

The Trump campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.

Fox News’s call of Arizona going blue with only 73 percent of the state’s vote counted reportedly left the president and campaign members upset. Adviser Jason Miller challenged the call on Twitter and requested that Fox News retract it.

But Fox News defended the decision, with Arnon Mishkin, the director of the Fox News Decision Desk, going on the air to say, “I’m sorry, the president is not going to be able to take over and win enough votes to eliminate that 7-point lead that the former vice president has.”

The Associated Press also called the state for Biden early Wednesday morning, but other news organizations such as NBC News, CNN and The New York Times have yet to announce.

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Arizona: Cindy McCain Nov 10, 2020 5:00:01 GMT

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The late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain would be happy that Joe Biden has won the presidency, his widow Cindy McCain said Monday.

"I think my husband would be very pleased," Cindy McCain, who endorsed the former vice president and is part of his transition team, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday.

"We were good friends with the Bidens," she continued. "And I just know he is looking down and going, 'You did the right thing.'"
Her comments come as Biden, who CNN and other networks projected will become the 46th President of the United States after the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday pushed him over the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House, continues to lead in the McCains' home state of Arizona. CNN has not called the race in the state.

McCain, who was featured in a video that aired during the Democratic National Convention, leaned heavily into Biden's character and empathy in her endorsement and said she was hoping to reach suburban women who may have been on the fence on who to support. She also appeared in an October ad for the Biden campaign, saying that he would "always fight for the American people, just like John did."

Trump has frequently attacked John McCain by name, including in 2015, when he said he didn't consider McCain a war hero because he preferred service members who were not captured. He again went after the late senator following Cindy McCain's announcement, criticizing him for "endless wars" and the state of the Veterans Administration.

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Arizona: Cindy McCain Nov 10, 2020 22:09:40 GMT

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One former adviser to John McCain described President Donald Trump’s re-election loss in Arizona as the late senator's possible “revenge,” but McCain's widow says the unseated president has no one to blame but himself.

“What I think happened was not just my husband’s influence, but this administration has done so poorly on so many different things,” Cindy McCain said during an appearance on The View on Monday.

“To start, with the pandemic, the military, leaving our allies on the battlefield, pulling out of treaties,” she said, listing off criticisms of the Trump administration. “All of those things combined, I think, made most people want to vote for [President-elect Joe] Biden.”

Biden, 77, is leading Trump, 74, by about 15,000 votes in the traditionally Republican state, according to the Associated Press.

Arizona has only voted in favor of a Democratic president once — President Bill Clinton in 1996 — since President Harry S. Truman’s 1948 election. However, the state has lightened more and more to blue in recent years, electing two Democratic senators since 2018.

President Trump, meanwhile, maintained a notorious feud with Arizona's most famous senator — the late McCain — even after the latter's death from brain cancer in 2018.

Trump continuously attacked the former 2008 Republican presidential nominee, including making fun of the military veteran for being held captive as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Following McCain's death, Trump reportedly refused to attend his funeral and told his senior staffers, according to The Atlantic: "We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral." (Trump vehemently denied The Atlantic's reporting, though he previously posted on social media referring to Sen. McCain as a "loser.")

“The Trumps are always making my mom cry,” Meghan McCain, the couple's 35-year-old daughter and a View co-host, said in April. “I think character is really important in this moment — somebody who can tamp down fear and anger instead of making it worse. ”