Can Kelli Ward, a conservative mother of three, ride the immigration row to a Senate seat for Arizona? As the nation wrung its hands about immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border, Kelli Ward was thinking about four flimsy strands of barbed wire. During her campaign for U.S. Senate, the Arizona Republican visited Jim Chilton, a 79-year-old cattle rancher who, gun strapped to his waist, wriggled his way beneath the invisible boundary that has set fire to much of our national dialogue in recent weeks. “Look, I’m in Mexico,” Chilton told Ward, then wriggled his way back, waved his hands and announced, “And I’m back. If I can do it, anybody can.” |