CURL: Should John McCain’s Wife Fill His Senate Seat? Absolutely Not.

Nearly 13 months after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a type of aggressive cancer in the brain, Sen. John McCain of Arizona died on Saturday at age 81.

While he’d been absent from the Senate for months as he battled the illness, with his passing comes the time when the governor of McCain’s home state must fill the vacant Senate seat with an appointee who will serve until 2020 before facing an election. The governor, Doug Ducey, is a Republican and therefore will appoint someone from the GOP.