Loathsome toad Joe Arpaio

Joe Arpaio has spent decades of his life terrorizing immigrants and anyone who looked like they might be an immigrant. Now he’s terrifying his fellow Arizona Republicans—by planning a Senate run. A group of Republicans have come up with a draft resolution before the state party’s annual meeting, hoping to butter Arpaio up and then ease him out of the race to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, because they don’t think he can win.

The draft resolution lavishes praise on Arpaio’s law enforcement career, time as Maricopa County sheriff, and support of other Republicans, but then concludes that “two well qualified candidates, former state Senator Kelli Ward and U.S. Representative Martha McSally, are in the race for U.S. Senator for Arizona” and therefore “the Arizona Republican Party expresses its gratitude to Sheriff Arpaio for his many years of service, and respectfully urges him to exit the race for U.S. senator from Arizona.”

The resolution backers’ concern is that Arpaio could become their party’s next Roy Moore.

"I don't think that we're going to get him to drop out of the race with it," Marchant said of the resolution. "Our objective is to hopefully send a message throughout the state, and possibly throughout the country, to please don't send millions of dollars into this race. ... Obviously, we don't think he can win. Ultimately, if in a best-case scenario, he did somehow win the primary and by some miracle can beat Kyrsten Sinema, then we've got two 90-year-olds in the Senate."

As predicted, Arpaio has no plans to drop out, saying “I'm a fighter and I'm not going to bow out,” and continuing “Why don't the other two drop out? Why me?” Because your fellow Republicans don’t think you can win, Joe. Because your name is toxic outside of your racist base.

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