Republican congressional candidate Janice Arnold-Jones hasn’t won an election for public office in 10 years.
Her losing streak is sure to continue this fall based on the laws of gravity. It’s impossible for Arnold-Jones to climb in the polls with both feet embedded in her mouth.
She killed any chance she had in the congressional race by taking a potshot at the Native American roots of her opponent, Democrat Deb Haaland.
“If anything, I’m guilty of sounding petty,” she told me in an interview.
Arnold-Jones, 66, appeared last week on a Fox News show to discuss her race against Haaland in the Albuquerque-based 1st Congressional District. The interview should have been a breeze. Host Ainsley Earhardt lobbed friendly questions to Arnold-Jones.
Then Earhardt made a harmless observation, and Arnold-Jones self-destructed. Earhardt said Haaland would be the first Native American woman in Congress.
Arnold-Jones told me this response was innocent enough. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who says she is part Cherokee and part Delaware Indian, already is a member of Congress. Arnold-Jones said this led to her skeptical tone about Haaland breaking the barrier.
Then Arnold-Jones…
