>> Poll show that Incumbent Republican Senator Martha McSally from Arizona is likely to lose
her re-election bid. Most polls show her losing against her independent challenger Mark Kelly.
And during a recent debate, McSally was actually asked about her support for Donald Trump.
Which in the beginning seemed to be an asset to her campaigning, but now has begun to become
more of a liability.
Let's take a look at this wonderful clip from the debate.
>> So, candidate Kelly says he's an independent and a moderate and lots of platitudes here,
but the stakes could not be higher. If you want your tax cuts, I'm your girl, you want
the largest tax increase in history, you got somebody else over here.
>> Senetor the question was, are you proud of your support for President Trump?
>> I'm proud to be fighting for Arizona every single day.
>> Is that a yes or no for President Trump? >> Putting legislation on President Trump's
desk. >> So you're proud of your support for President
Trump?
>> You look at the legislation we put on his desk is to cut Arizona tax bill.
>> It sounds like she is proud of her support for President Trump.
>> I'm proud to be fighting for Arizona. The question is, why was he wanting to support
Bernie Sanders? >> My God.
>> It's so good. It's so good. I love it when it's so good. No, that moderator needs to
moderate every single debate moving forward. Okay, the Martha McSally part of course is
the best, but let's just focus on Mr. moderator for a second. Because he's monotone, straight
faced.
Do you support Donald Trump? Are you gonna answer the question? That was the question,
do you answer, are you gonna, it sounds like you support Donald Trump, that's awesome,
right? No shenanigans, just keeping it straight to the point and he was absolutely right in
how he assessed that situation.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna mark you down as being proud of Donald Trump, yes. There should be
a term for when in your quest to not say something that would be damaging to amount x. Doing
wide damage to yourself, looking so flailing and cowardly and dishonest. That you look
honestly that you have to look worse than you would have if you would just honestly
said this the thing that people wouldn't like.
You have her, you had Dr. Conley over the weekend being asked about Trump's oxygen.
It's like, we're not idiots. We know what you're doing. Who watching that thinks, yeah,
no, she's a straight shooter, real talk express right there. And they still do it. I hope
that we're on the cusp of breaking through a little bit of that.
Because now with the ability for little snippets of video like that to be spread so widely,
so quickly. I think that the damage will be a little bit worse. But that's embarrassing.
You don't look like a real person. You look like a political algorithm, breaking down
and trying to reboot itself.
It's just pathetic, it's just pathetic. >> So let's get into a little the details
when it comes to this particular election. So the Arizona race is one of the most competitive
in the country. And it is crucial to the future control of the chamber, meaning the Senate.
Democrats almost certainly need to defeat Martha McSally to take back the senate.
McSally is competing with Kelly, that's Mark Kelly, in a swing state in which a centrist
democrat Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Won the state's last US Senate race in 2018 and
polls show that former Vice President Joe Biden is competitive in Arizona. A state where
Trump won by only 3% in 2016.
Just to give you a sense of what the polls are looking like, I alluded to this earlier.
But a New York Times/Siena poll released on October 5th, found McSally trailing Kelly
by 11 points. And a USA Today/Suffolk poll released three days earlier, found Kelly with
a 9% lead over the incumbent senator.
And Mark Kelly as progressives is not a candidate that would necessarily really appeal to us.
He identifies as a moderate, an independent. The Navy captain and NASA astronaut is the
husband of former Arizona representative Gabby Giffords. Who was shot in the head and nearly
killed in 2011. And is now a leader in the movement against gun violence.
The race has pivoted over healthcare. This is the part that you should know about in
regard to policy. Especially during the coronavirus pandemic. McSally said on Tuesday that Kelly
support for a public health care option was the first step to the government takeover
of health care. Kelly has rejected those attacks saying, in one ad that he will never vote
to eliminate private health insurance.
So look, he's definitely better than Martha McSally and it is important for Republicans
to lose control of the Senate. But with that said, I mean he's not a candidate that we
would be championing. But he's better than McSally. That's where we're at with that race.
>> Yeah, and we've gotten a reminder now that either of us or most of our audience needed
it.
That controlling the Senate is not just like a kind of cool thing to have. It's pretty
important actually for basically every priority that progressives have. Superfast, the counterfeit
Kelly thing. Is that like a pathetic attempt to do a Trump style nickname? Is that what
she was going for there?
It's not for good. >> Yeah, although, I don't know, it's awful.
What does that mean? So Mark Kelly is a counterfeit version of Mark Kelly? What does that mean?
>> I think he counterfeits money. >> I don't know.
>> I don't know. I honestly don't know. That's why you stick with little, it's simple.