Chosen To Lead Arizona GOP . . . Persistent Trump Backer Kelli Ward Finally Enters Winner’s Circle
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) stepped to the microphones for a talk at Arizona State University in suburban Tempe in May 2015, he wasn’t the only politician in the room with thoughts of running for a higher office. Paul had then just jumped in to a run for the White House for 2016, while the woman who introduced him to a crowd of more than 400 people at the ASU student fitness center, Arizona GOP State Sen. Kelli Ward, was thinking of challenging incumbent Sen. John McCain in the Grand Canyon State’s 2016 Republican primary election. Both Paul and Ward had libertarian-conservative instincts, which both of them referred to in their comments. Ward presented…Continue Reading