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Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) ran the table in Tuesday night’s GOP primaries, surpassing the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination. Shortly after McCain was declared the winner in Texas, the state that put him over the top, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee took to the stage to offer his concession. Huckabee said he called McCain to offer the Arizona senator “my commitment to him and to the party.” According to the official presidential schedule, McCain is slated to have lunch with President Bush at the White House Wednesday, followed by remarks to reporters in the Rose Garden where Bush is expected to formally endorse the senator. Before McCain claimed victory, Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was prepared to officially start the Democrats’ assault on the Arizona senator. “John McCain is out of touch with the issues facing Americans each day,” Dean said. “Instead of offering solutions to the high cost of health care, help for the middle class or ideas to create jobs, McCain offers 100 years in Iraq and more of the same Bush budgets that have heaped debt onto our children and damaged our economy. Instead of ending the influence of lobbyists in Washington, he's hired them to run his campaign. The closer voters look at the real McCain record, the more they will realize he cannot be trusted to deliver the change America wants.” |
