Sen. Martha McSally is trying to tie her opponent, former space shuttle commander Mark Kelly, to the Democratic Party's ascendant left wing
GILBERT, Ariz. — Martha McSally, former fighter pilot, was in the midst of launching an attack on Mark Kelly, former astronaut, when she paused to checkThe Arizona Republican senator finished the attack: Kelly will spend those 258 days, she argued, “trying to pretend he’s not a Democrat” to win over the state’s voters.
2020 strategy was clear: run side-by-side with Trump, and turn Mark Kelly the astronaut into Mark Kelly the socialist. This race, in a state Democrats think could be on the cusp of turning blue, is an expensive clash of heavyweight political biographies: McSally is a retired Air Force colonel. Kelly is a Navy veteran who flew four missions to space, commanded the space shuttle — then quit to return to Arizona to care for Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt.
This year, McSally has taken a two-pronged approach: She's talking more about her past to improve her image compared to 2018, while also running a knock-down, drag-out campaign against Kelly. Her launch video released this month featured emotional testimonials from Arizona voters as she talked about her personal background, including her father’s death when she was 12 and surviving sexual assault when she was in the military.
“We’d all love to draw a weak opponent, or none, if we can. But in Martha’s case, she’s never had that luxury,” Cramer said. There, she bashed Kelly, telling the crowd he was “flying on Bernie Sanders’ wing, and I’m flying on your wing, President Trump.”
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