“It was like a comedy show sometimes to watch the two,” she said.
Among the Republicans who will support their votes at the Democratic National Convention this week will be Cindy McCain.
In a video posted on the second night of the DNC, Cindy McCain will discuss the “unlikely” friendship between former Vice President Joe Biden and her late husband, Sen. John McCain.
Ahead of Tuesday night’s affair, conventional officials released a clip of the segment, in which Cindy McCain appears via audio. In the video, titled “An Unloving Friendship,” Cindy McCain of the two said, “They would just sit and joke. It was like a comedy show sometimes to watch the two.”
The rest of the clip shared some personal details about their friendship over the years.
“It was a friendship that should not have worked. John, a former Navy pilot, was just released from a North Vietnamese prison. Joe, a young senator from Delaware,” the narrator says in the preview clip. “But in the 1970s, Joe was assigned a military assistant for a trip abroad.”
“I was a House of Representatives scavenger hunt and used your bags on overseas trips,” John McCain is heard saying in the video, which is taken from a 2016 Senate floor clip.
“The son of a gunman never carried my bags. He should have carried my bags there, but he never carried my bags,” Biden replied back, in a clip from his 2017 speech at the Liberty Medal ceremony.
“John and Joe traveled thousands of miles together,” the narrator recounts. “The families got to know each other, gathering for picnics in the backyard of the Bidens.”
Cindy McCain’s appearance at the DNC comes after four Republican leaders, including former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, offered their support to Biden on the first night of the most-virtual convention. On Tuesday, she said she was “honored” to accept an invitation from the Biden team to be part of the video.
“My husband and Vice President Biden enjoyed a 30+ year friendship dating back to their years of serving together in the Senate, so I was honored to accept the invitation of the Biden campaign to participate in a video to celebrate their relationship, ”McCain tweeted.
In 2019, about a year after the death of John McCain, Cindy McCain talks to ABC’s Jon Karl about the legacy of her late husband.
At the time, she said the current Republican Party “is not Abraham Lincoln’s party … nor Ronald Reagan’s party.”
“That was a difficult torch to carry and, as John said, there were a lot of lonely days because he always said what was on his mind,” she told Karl. Cindy McCain added at the time that her husband “has never done anything deliberate to be hurtful like anything … I do not see anyone wearing a cloak, I do not see anyone wearing the voice – the voice of reason.”
President Donald Trump has been remarkably critical of John McCain over the years, often insulting his military service and prisoner of war as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was taken prisoner. I love people who were not taken prisoner,” Trump said when he was on the campaign trail in 2015.
As president, he has spoken out against the late senator in Arizona against the introduction of Obamacare, saying he “is never a fan” and “will never be.” He continued to criticize John McCain months after his death from brain cancer in 2018.
For his part, McCain mostly denied the type of personal attacks that Trump inflicted on him, although he criticized the tone and use of the president’s president.
“I hope we can re-trust in humility, in our need to work together, in our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and by the people who have chosen us to do better,” he said. the day after his landmark health care vote. “Stop listening to the bombastic sounds on radio and television and the internet. Hell with them. They want to do nothing for the public interest. Our inability is their existence.”
Alisa Wiersema of ABC News contributed to this report.
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