A fundraising email for Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) capitalized on her exchange with a CNN reporter in the halls of the Senate on Thursday, urging her supporters to fight back against “liberal hacks.”
The message was sent after McSally was caught on-camera calling CNN’s Manu Raju a “liberal hack” and declining to comment on the upcoming Senate impeachment trial following the delivery of articles of impeachment by the House this week.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not in the Senate to play politics, especially with liberal hacks who profit off of spin,” McSally wrote in the email.
“I’m in the Senate to fight for all Arizonans, not play games with the left-wing media,” she added.
McSally appeared to stand by her remark to Raju in a tweet, retweeting the reporter’s account of the encounter with the comment “you are” and adding her own staffer’s video of the exchange.
McSally was appointed to the Senate in late 2018 to serve the remainder of the term started by late Sen. John McCain (R). She previously lost a race for the Senate seat currently held by Arizona’s other senator, Kyrsten Sinema (D).
Updated Friday, Jan. 17 at 5:43 p.m.