McCain’s primary opponent takes shot at his age
John McCain’s primary opponent said he is too old to serve in the Senate, saying that people slow down “at the end of life.”
{mosads}”John McCain is falling down on the job, he’s gotten weak and he’s gotten old. I do want to wish him a happy birthday, he’s going to be 80 on Monday. And I want to give him the best birthday present ever, the gift of retirement,” former Arizona state Sen. Kelli Ward said Thursday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily with Chuck Todd.”
“I’m a physician, I see the physiological changes that happen in normal aging in patients again and again and again over the last 25 years. I do know what happens to the body and the mind at the end of life.”
When Todd asked Ward if she felt comfortable diagnosing McCain on television, she responded: “Diagnosing him as an 80-year-old man? Yes, I do.”
Ward is running a challenge from McCain’s right, embracing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who criticized McCain last year for being captured during the Vietnam War. While Trump has significant support in Arizona, having won the GOP primary by a 22-point margin, McCain still holds a healthy lead.
The winner is expected to face Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, the party’s overwhelming favorite in the primary race.
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