US ex-senator Jon Kyl named as successor to McCain
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 10, 2011 US Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, leaves a bipartisan meeting of US lawmakers working on legislative framework for comprehensive deficit reduction hosted by US Vice President Joe Biden at Blair House, across the street from the White House in Washington, DC. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is scheduled to unveil former Senator Jon Kyl as McCain’s successor at a news conference at the Arizona Capitol on September 4, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB Arizona’s governor on Tuesday named former US senator Jon Kyl as the temporary successor to late senator John McCain, appointing a respected and powerful former Republican lawmaker to the post. “There is no one in Arizona with the stature of senator Jon Kyl. He is a man without comparable peer,” Governor Doug Ducey told reporters in Phoenix, with Kyl at his side. “Senator Kyl is prepared to hit the ground running.” Kyl, 76, was to fly to Washington to be sworn in possibly just da