Republican senator from Arizona, Martha McSally is urging her supporters to skip a meal or two to help her win her senate seat this November.
“We’re doing our part to catch up, you know, to get our message out. But it takes resources. So, anybody can give, I’m not ashamed to ask, to invest. If you can give a dollar, five dollars, if you can fast a meal and give what that would be,” McSally said according to audio obtained Arizona Family on Friday.
Virtually every polling out of Arizona has Martha McSally losing to her Democratic challenger, astronaut Mark Kelly—by double digits in some cases. McSally is also the lone Republican incumbent whose seat has been moved to ‘lean Democratic’ by Cook Political Report.
She’s losing the money race as well. Kelly is heading into the general election with $24 million dollars. That’s more than two times the amount of money McSally has on hand.
McSally’s campaign released a statement claiming that she was only joking about people skipping a meal—at a time when millions of Americans are out of a job and the lines at food backs get longer—to donate to her campaign.
“This is a dumb non-story about a candidate making a joke on the stump,” the campaign said.
