Cindy McCain, widow of Senator John McCain, cast her vote for a video on Tuesday of the second night of the Democratic convention highlighting her late husband’s close friendship with presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“It was a friendship that should not have worked,” she says in the video, describing the relationship between her late husband, a Republican in Arizona, and Biden, a Delaware Democrat.
She explains that her husband and Biden got to know each other in the 1970s, when McCain – new home of service in the Navy – was commissioned to be a military aid worker for Biden and they signed up thousands of miles together on foreign travel.
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Cindy McCain waves to the public after he was recognized by Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey during his state address.
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John McCain can be heard in the video claiming that his job was to carry Biden’s bags.
“The son-of-a-gun never carried my bags,” Biden replies back. “He had to carry my bags, damn it, but he never carried my bags.”
Cindy McCain’s participation in the video was under scrutiny by Democrats to show that Biden has garnered the support of some longtime Republicans as he looks to deny President Trump a second term in the November election.
But while McCain speaks glowingly of Biden in the video, she fails to offer an explicit distinction of his candidacy.
John McCain was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 against Barack Obama, who won the election with Biden as his running mate.
Cindy McCain is the last Republican to attend the Democratic convention. A number of notable former GOP elected officials – including former Gov. of Ohio, John Kasich and former Gov. of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman – honored the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Monday night.
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Both Cindy McCain and her daughter Meghan have been outspoken critics of President Trump, and the family has been friends with the Bidens for years. Trump personally targeted John McCain in 2015, saying the former prisoner of war was not a hero “because he was taken prisoner. I love people who were not imprisoned.”
McCain later angered Trump with his dramatic thumbs-down vote against introducing President Obama’s health care law. Before McCain died of cancer in August 2018, reports suggested he made an explicit request that Trump not be invited to his funeral.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Receives the Liberty Medal from Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center, former Vice President Joe Biden, in Philadelphia.
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Biden comforted Meghan McCain during a performance on “The View” after her father was diagnosed with the cancer that eventually took his life. She said Biden often comes out to her to offer support after he lost his own son Beau to the same cancer in 2015.
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Although Meghan suggested in April that she would vote for Biden, Cindy did not make any explicit distinctions. In April last year, amid rumors that the McCains would wade into the election in support of Biden, Cindy McCain tweeted that Biden “was a wonderful man and a dear friend of the McCain family.”
“Well, she added at the time,” I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics. “
The video about Biden’s friendship with McCain is one of a series of short documentaries made by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim, who worked on “An Inconvenient Truth,” the 2006 documentary on climate change that former vice president Al Gore recording.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
