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Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Republican Senator John McCain, voted for Joe Biden in the presidential election. “We are Republicans, yes, but Americans first,” McCain wrote on Twitter. “In this race there is only one candidate who defends the values of our nation and that is Joe Biden.” Her husband lived by a motto: “Country first.”
John McCain had a long friendship with Biden during his life, despite different political views. US President Donald Trump, on the other hand, never hid his contempt for McCain. Five years ago, Trump said during the election campaign that the senator was not a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War. “I like people who have not been captured.”
McCain was captured as a United States Navy pilot in Vietnam and tortured by Viet Cong fighters. In the immediate aftermath of the Republican’s death in 2018, Trump continued his attacks, saying, among other things, that he was “never a fan of John McCain” and that he “never liked him.”
Cindy McCain, however, apparently decided to support Joe Biden for another current occasion. In early September, US media reported that during a visit to France in 2018, Trump is said to have made disparaging remarks about US soldiers who died in the war. Consequently, she referred to those killed as “losers” and “idiots”. Biden harshly criticized Trump for it. The president vehemently denies saying that. At a virtual election rally on Tuesday, Biden finally announced that Cindy McCain wanted to speak for him because of these statements by Trump.
“Joe and I don’t always agree, and I know he and John must have argued passionately,” Cindy McCain wrote on Twitter. But Biden is “a good and honest man” who will lead America “with dignity.” In addition, he will be a commander-in-chief who “can be trusted by the best armed forces in world history,” McCain wrote. Because Biden knows what it means to send a child into battle. Beau, Biden’s son, who died of cancer in 2015, had served as an American soldier in the Iraq war.
