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McCain's primary rival urges him to step aside after diagnosis - and suggests she could replace him

A day after news came out about Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., brain cancer diagnosis, his one-time political opponent urged the ailing senator to think about his political future sooner rather than later - and expressed interest in the possibility of her taking over his Senate seat.

"I hope Sen. McCain is going to look long and hard at this, that his family and his advisers are going to look at this, and they're going to advise him to step away as quickly as possible, so that the business of the country and the business of Arizona being represented at the federal level can move forward," Kelli Ward, who lost to McCain in last year's Republican primary and is now running to unseat Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said Thursday during an interview with an Indiana radio station.