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The state of Arizona has gone to Republicans in nearly every presidential election since 1952 – there was only one exception in 1996 when Bill Clinton was re-elected. Donald Trump (74) was also able to reclaim the desert state four years ago. At the moment it looks like Joe Biden (77) will make the race. Conservative broadcaster Fox News is also currently speculating a Democratic victory.
Trump’s appearance in the White House: “With legal votes I win”(01:40)
“To blame” for the impending defeat could be a deceased Republican – John McCain († 81). The reason: Trump has repeatedly fought with McCain, one of Arizona’s most popular politicians, during his lifetime.
Blocked abolition of Obamacare
McCain felt Trump’s anger especially when he opposed the abolition of Obamacare general health insurance in the Senate. Trump was unable to deliver on one of his most important election promises and thus called McCain a traitor. Trump could hardly hide his expectation that his opponent would soon die when he became terminally ill.
For this hostility now comes the late return coach: widow Cindy (66) and daughter Meghan McCain (36) have spoken out publicly in favor of Joe Biden. Only Biden represents American values, Cindy McCain said at the Democratic Party conference in September. Many Arizona voters appear to have followed up on this call.
Several years in captivity
McCain will not be forgotten because of a scene from the 2008 election campaign: a woman complained to him that Barack Hussein Obama (59) had to be barred from being president because he was an “Arab”. Republican presidential candidate McCain immediately broke off this statement: “No, ma’am, Barack Obama is an honorable gentleman with whom I have only political differences.”
McCain was a senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. He is remembered as a hero in the United States, especially in his native Arizona. It was popular with the party lines. In Switzerland he was feared mainly because of the tax dispute.
