First-term Gov. Doug Ducey has not revealed who might replace McCain.
8/27/2018 11:00
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is reviewing a list of GOP candidates to replace U.S. Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday following a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Whomever Ducey chooses to replace McCain will serve in the Senate until 2020, when Arizona voters will choose someone to fill the two remaining years of the term McCain won in 2016, The Hill reports.
Ducey, a first-term Republican governor who is listed on the state’s ballot for the midterms, has not commented publicly about who he will selected to replace the legendary Sen. McCain. Arizona’s primaries are Tuesday, Aug. 28.
“[The governor], both conscious of McCain's status as one of the nation's most respected statesmen and war heroes?and nervous about his own re-election bid this November?has squelched speculation about who might inherit McCain's seat,” The Hill reports.
Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma will hold their primaries Aug. 28 while races in Massachusetts, Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New York are staggered throughout September.
On Monday afternoon, several Arizona candidates announced they would temporarily suspend their campaign activities in honor of McCain, Politico reports.