Arizona U.S. Senate Results: John McCain Wins

PHOENIX — Senator John McCain on Tuesday survived one of the most bruising election seasons of his long political career, fending off a challenge from his Democratic rival, Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, to secure a sixth term representing Arizona in Washington.

Mr. McCain, 80, weathered a revolt from the right within the Republican Party. And he found himself in an awkward relationship with Donald J. Trump, who last year mocked Mr. McCain’s military service and years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, saying: “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Mr. McCain nonetheless endorsed Mr. Trump, justifying his decision not as a personal choice but as a matter of respect for his party. His support was fleeting. He withdrew it last month, prompted, he said, by Mr. Trump’s “demeaning comments about women and his boasts about sexual assaults.”

Ms. Kirkpatrick, 66, embraced the positions pushed by Hillary Clinton, banking on support from Latino voters, moderate independent voters and disaffected middle-of-the-road Republicans to propel her to victory.

Mr. McCain was buoyed by a deep campaign war chest and by help from the Republican establishment. Last week, Mitt Romney, the party’s nominee in 2012, stumped for him in Arizona.

Mr. McCain seized on Ms. Kirkpatrick’s support of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act as a main point of attack. In ads, his campaign assailed her for calling her vote for the program her “proudest moment” in Congress and declared her “too liberal for Arizona.”

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