McCain family to support Biden in 2020 race in bid to defeat Trump

[CousinIT]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mccain-family-to-support-biden-in-2020-race-in-bid-to-defeat-trump

The late Sen. John McCain's family plans to support former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid, backing the Democrat not only in his party's crowded primary race but also in a general election matchup with President Trump, the Washington Examiner has learned.

In an extraordinary snub to Trump, who derided McCain's Vietnam War service and mocked him even after his death last August at age 81, the McCain family is preparing to break with the Republican Party. McCain represented the party in Congress for 35 years and was chosen as its presidential nominee in 2008, losing to Barack Obama.

Sources close to both Biden's presidential campaign and the McCains said that at some point during the White House race, McCain's widow Cindy, 64, and daughter Meghan, 34, a host on "The View," will offer their public support in the hope of removing Trump from office in 2020.

[ Related: Meghan McCain rips Trump: Your ‘pathetic’ life is spent ‘obsessing over great men you could never live up to’]

A former McCain campaign official with close ties to the family said support for Biden was a given, but they needed to calculate how they could best help the former vice president. Both Cindy and Meghan McCain remain Republicans, and one consideration is whether endorsing Biden in the Democratic primary could do him more harm than good. "It's undeniable that Joe Biden and the McCain family have a very close, personal relationship. It's about what's good for him [Biden]."

Another McCain family source said there had been discussions with the Bidens about his 2020 run, which is expected to be announced on Thursday. "They talk regularly and have been supportive of his run," the source said. "The question is going to be timing and coordinating with the Biden campaign. There are a lot of moving parts there and [Biden's campaign is] not necessarily organized. I wouldn't expect a formal family endorsement because some of McCain's family is still in the military, but I do expect Cindy to speak out at some point."

[gibraltar72]

1. Mean tweets to follow.

[SoonerPride]

2. They can simply tweet a reply "I prefer presidents who aren't impeached"

[CousinIT]

4. +1

[NewJeffCT]

9. I had a meme that was in that vein before

but, not nearly as classy.

it was something like "I like presidents who didn't get golden showers from Russian hookers" or something like that

[SoonerPride]

10. hahahahaha

that also works

[Croney]

3. The article is a year old. Have they followed through?

[CousinIT]

5. My guess is that they intend to, based on this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/daytime-tv/meghan-mccain-reacts-to-suggestion-she-should-be-presidential-candidate-joe-biden-s-vp/ar-BB134hgp?li=BBnbfcL

. . .The pair started their conversation about Biden -- the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee -- as Cohen asked whether McCain, a Republican, would be voting for Biden over President Donald Trump in the next election.

"I just had a long conversation with him on Saturday. I love him dearly," McCain said of Biden. "I keep telling everyone, 'I will promise you will know who I'm voting for.' But it won't take a rocket scientist to know there is one who has made pain in my life a living hell and one who shepherded me through the grief process. Shouldn't be rocket science."

Cohen followed up, asking whether Biden could be the first Democrat the McCain family has ever voted for. The View co-host's father, late Arizona Senator John McCain, was a Republican. He ran against Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, but was great friends with Biden.

"It's really tough because, again, my parents met and ended up getting married in part because of [Biden and his wife, Jill]. They got drunk and danced together. They're old, old friends," McCain said. "He's been so integral in my life, especially since my dad got sick."

"I'm always like, my heart over my head in so many different ways, and the Trumps, they're always making my mom cry. I just think politics is personal too and character is really important. And [I want] someone who's going to tamp down... fear and anger, instead of making it worse."

[Goodheart]

6. Will the Romney's follow suit?

[Marcuse]

8. And the Bushes and the Doles?

[Cha]

7. KR!

[Demonaut]

11. I wouldn't trust Meghan to uphold her end of the support for Biden