Kelli Ward is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 25, 1969 in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States. When Ward ran for re-election in November 2014, she was unopposed in both the primary and the general election.
On July 14, 2015, Ward announced she would be entering the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona, against long-time incumbent John McCain, who was viewed by many political analysts as a top target of the Tea Party movement and by other Republican conservatives. On December 2, 2015, Ward announced that per Arizona’s resign-to-run laws, she would resign from the state senate, effective December 15, in order to dedicate her time to running for the U.S. Senate. She was succeeded by Sue Donahue.
Also in that month, a video attack ad appeared accusing Ward of agreeing with the chemtrails conspiracy theory and referring to her as “Chemtrail Kelli”. The advertisement was sponsored by the Senate Leadership Fund, aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and may have been the first time Ward came to the attention of “many outside Arizona” according to journalist Clare Malone, (an ad on the subject of chemtrails and Ward first appeared in the 2016 Senate race with McCain). Politifact rated the claim that Ward “hosted a town hall on ‘chemtrail conspiracy theories’ and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation” as “mostly false”, and factcheck.org labeled the ad “misleading”. Ward criticized the ad as demonstrating “sexism reserved for conservative women”.
After Republican Senator Ron Gould left the Legislature and left the District 5 seat open, Ward won the three-way August 28, 2012, Republican primary in a highly contested election with 9,925 votes (42.2%,) in a field which included State Representative Nancy McLain. Ward won the November 6, 2012 general election with 49,613 votes (71.2%) against Democratic nominee Beth Weiser, who had run for a Senate seat in 2010.
Ward has changed her position on abortion over time. In 2012, Ward said that she wanted the government to play no role in the decision to have an abortion, saying, “My preference would be that a patient and a doctor talk to each other about the risks, the benefits, what is the potential outcome for the mother should she choose to have a procedure like that, instead of having the government trying to make those decisions.” By 2016, she described herself as “pro-life”. Her spokesman Stephen Sebastian said that she maintained a pro-life record in the state senate and supported a “human life amendment” to the U.S. Constitution. She said that Planned Parenthood “sells dismembered baby body parts.”
In January 2014, Ward introduced the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act, which would “ban the state from engaging in activities which help the NSA carry out their warrantless data-collection programs, or even make use of the information on a local level.”
