GOP Senate candidate Dr. Kelli Ward called out her primary opponent, Sen. Jeff Flake, for being weak on immigration, wanting “amnesty” and “open borders.”
“He [Jeff Flake] believes in open borders and amnesty and I believe in building the wall and stopping illegal immigration. I think we do need a physical border. I think we do need to mix the mortar to fix the border. And that means a wall,” Ward told “Fox and Friends” Monday.
Ward accused Flake of not being a true conservative, saying it’s vital Arizona has a senator that supports President Donald Trump.
“Unfortunately for us in Arizona, we don’t have a conservative Republican senator,” Ward said. “We don’t have a senator who supports the president at all. And so 2018, it’s time for a change to get someone in office who is going to support that America first agenda, and move this country in the right direction.”
Ward gave her stance on immigration, supporting the construction of a border wall and favoring penalties for illegal immigrants, promising to hold “employers accountable as well as the people who come to our country illegally.” The Senate candidate added that those who cross the border illegally “have to understand that there are consequences to coming here that way. Not rewards.”
When asked to give her opinion on the Senate’s failure to pass an Obamacare repeal, Ward expressed disappointment that an entirely Republican Congress couldn’t get a bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.
“As a physician myself, it is appalling that we have the House, the Senate, and the White House and the insider political professionals couldn’t get the job done for the American people,” Ward said. “People in Arizona are suffering with high deductibles and skyrocketing premiums, and they can’t access high quality cost effective healthcare.”
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