Cindy McCain, John McCain’s Wife, Top Candidate to Succeed Her Husband in the U.S. Senate

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his wife Cindy McCain walk out of the Russell Senate Office building toward their car at the US Capitol July 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. McCain was recently diagnosed with brain cancer but returned on the day the Senate is holding a key procedural vote on U.S. President Donald TrumpÍs effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Voters of Arizona are preparing for Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to pass away due to an ongoing struggle with cancer. Now, Republican and political insiders are privately focusing their attention on his wife, Cindy, as the obvious replacement. McCain has held the seat since 1986.

Republican leaders spoke privately with legendary conservative political reporter John Gizzi at Newsmax, but no one would give their name on the record while McCain still battles with the deadly illness. Gizzi reports that those in Arizona who would speak with him “agree almost unanimously, Cindy McCain following John in the Senate through appointment by Gov. Doug Ducey, (R-AZ), is a near certainty.”

A friend of McCain’s since his 1972 return from his captivy in Vietnam opined, “I’ve always assumed that was the arrangement.”

And a former United States Senator privately admitted, “I don’t know if this [plan] has been formalized, but that’s what people who know John tell me.”

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Reportedly, McCain family members have been reaching out to Gov. Ducey to let the Governor know that “Team McCain” wants Cindy to be John’s replacement.

During her husband’s 2008 presidential run, Cindy McCain, who has described herself as pro-life, told CBS News she does not believe Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision, should be overturned.

In addition, in 2010, she posed with daughter Meghan McCain in supporting gay marriage in a “NOH8” campaign, with duct tape covering her mouth.

Sadly, in the past year, McCain famously voted twice to save Obamacare: First in July, and again to defeat the the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal effort in September.

And his new book, The Restless Wave, John slams President Trump’s populist conservative agenda, claiming that American leadership in the world is at risk: “It is hard to know what to expect from President Trump, what’s a pose, what’s genuine.” He also opined that he hopes Trump’s character revealed through his foreign policy will show a “growing recognition that ‘leader of the free world’ is more than an honorific. It is a moral obligation more important than the person who possesses it.”

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Kirk Adams, a top aide of Gov. Ducey, is also under consideration for the Senate seat. But with so much support for Cindy, that is an unlikely move.

As Gizzy reminds us, eight U.S. Senators have been succeeded by their wives:

Since 1931, eight wives of U.S. senators succeeded their husbands. Often, the appointment has been seen as a sign senators can extend their power after their death. Democrats Rose Long of Louisiana (named to succeed husband, Huey, following his assassination in 1935) and Muriel Humphrey (appointed to replace late husband, Hubert, in 1978) are cases in point.

The last senatorial wife to assume the office herself was an unusual case.

Following his death in a plane crash in October 2000, Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan’s name remained on the Missouri ballot, and he actually defeated Republican Sen. John Ashcroft. Missouri’s new governor later declared the seat vacant and appointed Carnahan’s widow, Jean, to fill it.

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