Jarod: Where are you from? cycle day 25 clomid After McSally retired in 2010, she moved to Germany to teach classes on national security. But when Giffords stepped down midterm two years later, triggering a wide-open race to replace her, McSally quit her job, returned to Tucson and, with no elective political experience, jumped into a wild, 68-day campaign. She lost the special-election primary that spring, leaving Jesse Kelly, another Republican, to challenge Barber to fill out Giffords' term.