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2687d ago / 6:30 AM UTC

NBC Exit Poll in Arizona: John McCain Inspires a Handful of Ticket-Splitters

Donald Trump won his party’s nomination as the ultimate outsider to Washington and the GOP establishment. The friction between Trump and the GOP establishment turned personal in Arizona where U.S. Senator and former Republican party presidential nominee, John McCain, was up for re-election today. Trump cast aspersions on McCain as a former prisoner of war and celebrated military veteran during the campaign. McCain lashed back when Trump criticized the family of a slain soldier who was a Muslim immigrant. Both men refused to endorse the other in their respective election campaigns this year.

What’s a loyal Republican to do? According to NBC Exit Polls, about three-quarters of McCain voters kept their presidential vote within the party but about one-in-seven McCain voters chose Democrat Hillary Clinton and one-in-ten picked a third party candidate.

More than a third of McCain voters in Arizona have an unfavorable opinion of Trump and a similar share say he does not have the temperament to be an effective president. Trump may yet win the state, but his feud with John McCain made his path more difficult. 

2688d ago / 3:35 PM UTC

Meet the NBC News Exit Poll Desk Team

Throughout Election Night, a team of survey research analysts will be crunching the numbers on who voted, what issues were on their minds and why they voted the way they did.

The team includes Stephanie Psyllos, manager of exit polling, NBC News; Scott Keeter, senior survey advisor at Pew Research Center; Courtney Kennedy, director of survey research at Pew Research Center; Cary Funk, associate director of research at Pew Research Center; Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute; Maureen Michaels, president of Michaels Opinion Research Inc.; Mara Ostfeld, postdoctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan; Patrick Egan, associate professor of politics and public policy at New York University; Hannah Hartig, assistant director, University of Pennsylvania's Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies; Jennifer Su, senior project director, Princeton Survey Research Associates International; and Andrew Arenge, assistant producer, NBC News. The NBC News Exit Poll Desk works closely with digital editors David Taintor and Elizabeth Johnstone to curate the stories we produce.