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{{Short description|American television host and politician (born 1958)}}
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|image = J.D.Hayworth.jpg
|caption = Official portrait, 2010
|state1 = [[Arizona]]
|term_start1 = January 3, 1995
|term_end1 = January 3, 2007
|predecessor1 = [[Karan English]]
|successor1 = [[Harry Mitchell]]
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|birth_name = John David Hayworth Jr.
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|7|12}}
|birth_place = [[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]], [[North Carolina]], U.S.
|death_date = 
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|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse = {{marriage|Mary Hayworth|1989}}
|education = [[North Carolina State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
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'''John David Hayworth Jr.''' (born July 12, 1958) is an American [[Television presenter|television host]] and former [[politician]]. He served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1995 to 2007 from [[Arizona's 5th congressional district|Arizona's 5th Congressional District]]. He later hosted ''Newsmax Prime'', a television news/talk [[Prime time|prime time show]] that aired weekdays at 8:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time and 5:00&nbsp;p.m. Pacific Time on [[Newsmax TV]]. Previously, he hosted a conservative talk radio program on [[KFYI]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] until January 2010, when he resigned due to his run for the U.S. Senate.

A graduate of [[North Carolina State University]], Hayworth anchored sports reports for three television stations during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1994, Hayworth was elected to represent [[Arizona's 6th congressional district]], which was redistricted into the 5th District starting in the 2002 House elections. He was defeated in 2006 by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate [[Harry Mitchell]].

In 2010, he unsuccessfully [[United States Senate election in Arizona, 2010|ran for the U.S. Senate]], losing to incumbent Senator [[John McCain]] in the Republican primary.<ref>"Fiery Ariz. conservative challenges John McCain" [https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-poliics-mccain-idUSN1519469820100215 Reuters]</ref><ref name=USA>{{Cite news | last = Nowicki | first = Dan | title = J.D. Hayworth gives up radio talk show | newspaper = Arizona Republic | date = January 23, 2010 | url = https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/23/20100123jd-hayworth-radio0123.html | archive-date = March 3, 2016 | access-date = February 18, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180920/http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/23/20100123jd-hayworth-radio0123.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Early life, education, and broadcasting career==
Hayworth was born in [[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]], [[North Carolina]]. His grandfather, [[Ray Hayworth]], was a [[Major League Baseball]] catcher from 1926 to 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/haywora01.shtml |title=Baseball Reference.com |publisher=Baseball Reference.com |access-date=2012-06-16}}</ref> Hayworth received a bachelor's degree in speech communications and [[political science]] from [[North Carolina State University]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] in 1980, where he was student body president during his senior year.<ref>{{cite web | title=John David Hayworth, Jr. | url=http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/student-leaders/john-david-hayworth-jr | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709184128/http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/student-leaders/john-david-hayworth-jr | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 July 2012 | access-date=23 December 2011 }}</ref>

He was a sportscaster for WPTF-TV in Raleigh/Durham, NC, WFBC-TV (now [[WYFF-TV]]), the [[NBC]] station in [[Greenville, South Carolina]], from 1981 to 1986, and [[WLWT-TV]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] from 1986 to 1987. From 1987 to 1994, he was the sports anchor on the news reports of [[KSAZ-TV|KTSP-TV]] (later KSAZ-TV), which was then the [[CBS]] affiliate in Phoenix.

Hayworth married in 1989.<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r105:H25FE8-361: "Celebrating 9 years of a happy marriage, and urging members to help end the marriage tax penalty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018225052/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r105:H25FE8-361: |date=2015-10-18 }}, remarks in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1998.</ref> He and his wife Mary have three children.

==U.S. House of Representatives==
===Committees===
As a congressman, Hayworth served on the House of Representatives [[Committee on Ways and Means]]. He was the first ever representative from [[Arizona]] to have served on the committee.<ref>[http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10475 Committee on Ways & Means : U.S. House of Representatives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407183015/http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10475|date=April 7, 2010}}</ref>  While working on the committee, he was given a "satisfactory" (64 percent) rating from the [[National Taxpayers Union]].  Hayworth supported the tax cuts of 2001<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2001/06/07/hayworth/index.html | work=CNN | title=Rep. J.D. Hayworth: What the tax cut means for you | date=June 6, 2001 | access-date=May 5, 2010}}</ref> and 2003,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00002:@@@P |title=Search Results – Thomas (Library of Congress) |access-date=2012-06-16 |archive-date=2015-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018225053/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00002:@@@P |url-status=dead }}</ref> signed into law by President [[George W. Bush]].

===Campaigns===
In 1994, Hayworth ran in what was then the 6th District and defeated incumbent [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Karan English]], taking 54 percent of the vote to English's 42 percent. Hayworth criticized English's support for [[Bill Clinton]]'s budget plan, which Hayworth termed the largest tax increase in history. English had been endorsed in her successful 1992 campaign by former state [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] and [[1964 United States presidential election|1964]] Republican presidential candidate [[Barry Goldwater]] when she ran against [[Doug Wead]], but not in 1994 when she ran against Hayworth.

In 1996, Hayworth fired two of his campaign aides for their part in [[forgery|forging]] his signature to file a campaign [[affidavit]] on time. He won in 1996 with 48 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Steve Owens.

In 1998, Hayworth signed and filed the form in person, with television cameras, campaign volunteers, and the [[Arizona Secretary of State]] watching. He again defeated Owens, 52 percent to 45 percent.

His next three elections he won handily: He won in 2000 against [[Larry K. Nelson]], 60 percent to 37 percent; in 2002 against [[Craig Columbus]], getting 61 percent of the vote; and in 2004 against [[currently Justice (of the Peace) not the actress who suffered multiple strokes and lung cancer in 2004|Justice Elizabeth Rogers]], getting 60 percent.

During his first four terms, Hayworth represented a district that took in most of the northeastern portion of the state, including [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]]. Most of its population, however, was located in the Phoenix suburbs. After the 2000 census, his district was renumbered the 5th District and was made a much more compact district centered on the northeastern Valley—including all of [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]], [[Scottsdale, Arizona|Scottsdale]] and [[Fountain Hills, Arizona|Fountain Hills]], western [[Mesa, Arizona|Mesa]], and [[Chandler, Arizona|Chandler]], and part of northeastern Phoenix.  Despite a modest Republican registration advantage, it was considered to be slightly less conservative than other suburban Phoenix districts.

===Media profile===
[[File:Hayworth and Frank Press Conference.jpg|left|upright|thumb|Hayworth and [[Barney Frank]] at a [[Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.|Capitol Hill]] [[press conference]].]]
Known for his outspoken nature—he called President Clinton an "unprincipled philandering president" who had "the most corrupt administration in U.S. history"<ref name=AP>Associated Press, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100417121836/http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/CandidateProfile.aspx?ci=1127&oi=H U.S. House District 5: John David Hayworth (R): Incumbent]", ''USA Today'', 2004.</ref>&nbsp;– Hayworth is a frequent guest on [[conservative]] TV and talk radio. He sometimes substitutes as host of the nationally syndicated [[Laura Ingraham]] political commentary show on the [[Talk Radio Network]].

Hayworth has never shied away from controversy. In the same campaign letter in which he criticized Clinton, he said his Democratic opponent was "bankrolled by trial lawyers, radical [[homosexual rights]] groups, [[environmentalism|environmental]] extremists&nbsp;... along with almost every other [[left-wing]] wacko group you can think of."<ref name=AP />

===Political positions===
Hayworth is a staunch conservative. He supports stronger border security and opposes the temporary worker program proposed by [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]] for [[illegal aliens]].

In January 2006, [[Regnery Publishing|Regnery]] published ''Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror'', a book by Hayworth and his chief of staff, Joseph J. Eule. In the book, Hayworth said that Bush is too close to GOP contributors from the [[agribusiness]], [[meat packing]] and [[construction]] industries, whom he calls "addicted" to a steady stream of workers from Mexico and [[Central America]] to keep wages down. Hayworth also argues that current immigration law misinterprets the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendment]] to [[U.S. Constitution|the Constitution]], saying that a child of undocumented immigrants born in the U.S. should not be given U.S. citizenship (a view he has reiterated during the 2010 campaign<ref>{{cite news|quote=Hayworth said it was time to stop automatically granting citizenship to anyone born in Arizona|newspaper= The Observer|  url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/jd-hayworth-arizona-immigration-anger | title= JD Hayworth's Republican challenge to John McCain grows as anti-immigrant anger spills onto Arizona's streets | last= Harris | first=Paul | date=July 25, 2010 | location=London}}</ref>), and advocates the "Americanization" program [[Henry Ford]] advocated in an interview with the ''[[New York Times]]'' in 1914.<ref>{{cite news| first=Rebecca |last=Spence | url=http://forward.com/articles/1071/arizona-pol-triggers-flap-by-praising-henry-ford/ | title=Arizona Pol Triggers Flap By Praising Henry Ford | newspaper=Forward| date= August 18, 2006 }}</ref>

{{blockquote|The ever-so-successful process that used to be called "Americanization" was a major movement in the early 1900s&nbsp;... Henry Ford, a leader in this movement, said, "These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the [[English-only movement|English language]], and the right way to live." Talk like that today and our [[liberal elite]]s will brand you a cultural imperialist, or worse. But if you ask me, Ford had a better idea.}}Hayworth is the chairman of the advisory committee of the United States Justice Foundation.[https://usjf.net/james-v-lacy/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124151241/https://usjf.net/james-v-lacy/ |date=2021-01-24 }}

==2006 congressional campaign==
{{See also|2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona#District 5}}

Hayworth had considered running for the [[Governor of Arizona]] in the 2006 elections against incumbent Democrat [[Janet Napolitano]], but in March 2005 he announced that he preferred to stay in Congress. In the spring of 2005, Napolitano was enjoying a 79 percent favorable job rating.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/poll/2005/5-24-05.htm |title=HORIZON: Eight/KAET Public Affairs Program |publisher=Azpbs.org |date=2005-05-24 |access-date=2012-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826032512/http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/poll/2005/5-24-05.htm |archive-date=2012-08-26 }}</ref>

In the 2006 election, Hayworth faced former Tempe mayor, state senator, and then-state Democratic Party chairman [[Harry Mitchell]].  A number of prominent Republicans endorsed Mitchell,<ref>[http://www.azcongresswatch.com/?p=1807] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231841/http://www.azcongresswatch.com/?p=1807 |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> and this defection appeared to have influenced the general election.  CD-5, despite having a 60% Republican active registered voter advantage over Democrats (139,057 vs 86,743 in October 2006),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.azsos.gov/election/voterreg/VRcounts2006.htm |title=2005 & 2006 Voter Registration Counts |publisher=Azsos.gov |access-date=2012-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523022450/http://www.azsos.gov/election/voterreg/VRcounts2006.htm |archive-date=2012-05-23 }}</ref> nevertheless saw Hayworth narrowly defeated by Mitchell.  While most media outlets called the race for Mitchell on election night, Hayworth refused to concede due to a large number of absentee and early-voting ballots.  However, when it became apparent that Mitchell's lead was too large to overcome, Hayworth conceded on November 14.  He ultimately lost by 8,000 votes.

==Radio/TV talk show host==
On April 23, 2007, it was announced on Phoenix radio station [[KFYI]] that Hayworth would begin hosting an afternoon drive time (4–7 p.m.) talk show on the station starting April 26, 2007.<ref>[http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2008/02/02/how-low-the-mighty-have-fallen-hugh-downs-and-al-haig-do-infomercials/ "How Low the Mighty Have Fallen"], ''Ridiculous Infomercial Review'', February 2, 2008.</ref> Hayworth left his position as a political talk show host following his January 22, 2010 broadcast. At the time of his resignation he made the decision to challenge [[John McCain]] in the 2010 Republican primary election for [[U.S. Senate]].<ref name=USA /><ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Former Ariz. congressman plans run against McCain |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 23, 2010 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012205454.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329101709/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012205454.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref>

On January 3, 2012, Hayworth began a stint hosting a morning show on [[KSFO]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].

On April 10, 2012, former presidential candidate and former [[Governor of Arkansas]] [[Mike Huckabee]] replaced Hayworth on KSFO. Hayworth was a sometime fill-in when Huckabee is away from his radio show.

On March 8, 2013, it was announced that Hayworth would become the new co-host for the morning talk show on [[XEPRS-AM]] 1090 in Tijuana/San Diego. He joined [[Lee Hamilton (sports)|Lee Hamilton]]. On August 30, 2013, he left XEPRS 1090.<ref>"Hacksaw's Partner Let Go" http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Sep/03/hacksaw-partner-let-go/ ''San Diego Union Tribune''</ref>

==2010 Senate campaign==
{{See also|2010 United States Senate election in Arizona}}
In November 2009, Rasmussen Reports released the results of a poll of likely 2010 Republican primary voters in Arizona showing a statistical tie in a hypothetical primary challenge to incumbent John McCain for the 2010 Republican [[U.S. Senate]] nomination in Arizona.<ref>{{cite news|title=Election 2010: Arizona Senate GOP Primary |date=November 20, 2009 |publisher=Rasmussen Reports |url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104074258/http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_senate_gop_primary |archive-date=January 4, 2010}}</ref> Hayworth said he was considering running against McCain because he has "a profound disagreement with Senator John McCain over the concept of amnesty, whether he wants to call it comprehensive immigration reform or a pathway for guest workers to remain."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.solidprinciples.com/index.php/podcast/episode-27/ |title=J.D Hayworth Interview Solid Principles Podcast |publisher=Solidprinciples.com |access-date=2012-06-16 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227073834/http://www.solidprinciples.com/index.php/podcast/episode-27/ |archive-date=2012-02-27}}</ref><ref name=wsj>{{cite news |title=A McCain Upset? |work=The Wall Street Journal |first=Allysia |last=Finley |date=November 23, 2009 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704779704574553892531703298}}</ref>

In February, 2010, Hayworth announced that he was indeed running against McCain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/02/15/Ex-Rep-Hayworth-to-challenge-Sen-McCain/UPI-34891266269359/ |title=Ex Rep. Hayworth to challenge Sen. McCain |publisher=UPI.com |access-date=2012-06-16}}</ref> By mid March, Rasmussen reported only 7 points separating the two. Some credit was given to other McCain challengers' dropping out, thereby allowing Hayworth to pick up their support.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_republican_primary_for_senate |title=Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate |publisher=Rasmussen Reports |date=2010-07-26 |access-date=2012-06-16}}</ref>

During the campaign, Hayworth displayed his ignorance of history by stating that the United States never declared war on Germany during the Second World War.<ref>"McCain Primary Foe Slips Up on World War II History," Los Angeles Times (May 25, 2010</ref> The United States, in response to Germany's declaration of war against the United States, declared war on Germany on December 11, 1941.<ref>Pub. L. 77-331, 55 Stat. 796</ref>

It was also discovered that Hayworth, the alleged fiscal conservative, had participated in an [[infomercial]] in which he encouraged persons to obtain “free money” from the United States government through a program widely criticized as a scam, leading one person to call Hayworth a “trashy, idiotic crook.”<ref>Eichler, “J.D. Hayworth’s Free Government Money Informercial,” The Atlantic (June 22, 2010).</ref>

On August 25, 2010, Hayworth was defeated by John McCain 57–32% in the Arizona Senate primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2010/08/mccain-wins-by-wide-margin-041437 |title=McCain wins by wide margin – David Catanese |date=25 August 2010 |publisher=Politico.Com |access-date=2012-06-16}}</ref>

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