Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) call for the deployment of troops to the U.S. border with Mexico has set off a war of words over immigration in the Arizona GOP Senate primary. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who’s trying to defeat McCain for the GOP nomination by attacking him from the right, immediately called McCain’s plan a cynical political ploy that takes advantage of the death of an Arizona rancher. The McCain campaign, not surprisingly, says it’s simply shocked anyone would accuse him of playing politics with the issue.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=128443