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RandySF

(58,728 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 01:12 PM Apr 2020

Meghan McCain indicates she'll vote for Biden: 'Politics is personal'

Meghan McCain signaled that she will vote for former Vice President Joe Biden in November, saying that “politics is personal” for her.

Speaking on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” McCain said that, for her, the choice between Biden and President Trump in November came down to her experiences with both.

Biden, she said, helped her cope with the loss of her father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who died in 2018 after fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Trump, on the other hand, made the grief she felt “a living hell,” she said.

“I keep telling everyone I promise you you will know who I’m voting for,” the co-host of ABC’s “The View” said. “But it really shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to know there’s one man who has made pain in my life a living hell and another man who has literally shepherded me through the grief process. This really shouldn’t be rocket science for people.”

McCain is a lifelong Republican, but has been sharply critical of Trump for years. The president also feuded openly with John McCain during his life. During his 2016 presidential bid, Trump criticized McCain who spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s, saying that the former senator was “not a war hero” and that he prefers “people who weren’t captured.”

The rift between Trump and John McCain deepened after the real estate mogul took office. In 2017, McCain cast the deciding vote in the Senate against a health care measure backed by the White House that would have effectively done away with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), former President Obama’s signature legislative achievement.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/494508-meghan-mccain-indicates-shell-vote-for-biden-politics-is-personal

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Meghan McCain indicates she'll vote for Biden: 'Politics is personal' (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2020 OP
Back then McCain had two best friend. LakeArenal Apr 2020 #1
+1 crickets Apr 2020 #2
I agree with her absolutely, and not just because it's Biden... TreasonousBastard Apr 2020 #3
Never hearing from or about Meghan McCain again would be a gift. LuckyLib Apr 2020 #4

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. I agree with her absolutely, and not just because it's Biden...
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 01:31 PM
Apr 2020

At the end of the day, politics is put aside and you become human again. Biden knows this, and petty partisan bullshit disappears when a daughter is grieving over her dying father.

I admire her for being able to see this as while many others in her party can't.

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