And by the way, I’m the other senator from Arizona, the one that wasn’t captured.” He had made that remark about John McCain, which I thought was really beneath him.Īnd so anyway, he went on from there and told me I would lose in November, not knowing that I wasn’t up in November. Time for a question, so I-but before I even asked the question, he looked at me and said, “You’ve been very critical of me.” And he said that to everybody. I thought that that was unseemly, frankly, and just not becoming of a serious politician.Īnd so I-I hadn’t met him before. I’ve always, you know-my only thought about him and politics was the conspiracy theory that he not only espoused but really forwarded about birthplace. I never went up to New York to try to raise money for him. Well, he spoke to Senate Republicans, and he was, you know, well into the meeting when a few started to ask questions. When he came in, tell me the story of the back-and-forth between you two. Not many of us worried about that, because we didn’t think he had a chance. Well, by the time he got here, it was when he had sewed up the nomination, so it was certainly a lot of fear, a fear that we were going to get trounced in the general election, and if we weren’t trounced in the general election, if he happened to win, then it would change the party significantly. ![]() What was the sense around here as he was coming? Anticipation? Dread? What was it? It has been edited for clarity and length. This is the transcript of a two-part interview with FRONTLINE’s Michael Kirk conducted on Jan. A vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Flake announced in October 2017 that he would not seek re-election. Jeff Flake is a Republican politician and the junior senator from Arizona.
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