One candidate’s been slammed for being unmarried, childless, and for visiting Mecca in Muslim garb. He’s punched back, painting his rival as a billionaire-backed carpet-bagging opportunist who once played on a women’s college basketball team.
Welcome to the GOP primary for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, where two staunch Republicans who campaigned arm-in-arm just two years ago are engaged in a mudslinging cage match that outsiders say could set a new low—and maybe blueprint—for intraparty battles.
“It’s one of the ugliest—if not the ugliest—primaries in the entire country,” Barrett Marson, a GOP strategist in Arizona, said. “There is really deep resentment ...