WASHINGTON – More than 100 former members of Sen. John McCain’s campaigns and offices announced Thursday that they have signed Joe Biden for president.
“Given his lack of incumbent presidential leadership, his attempt to increase divisions among Americans instead of bridging them, and his failure to uphold American values, we believe the election of a former vice president Praying is clearly in the national interest, “they said in a letter.
As president, Biden would lead a comprehensive effort to contain the coronavirus in the United States, they said.
Some of McCain’s former assistants who signed the letter include Mark Salter, the senator’s sole chief of staff; Christian Ferry, who was deputy manager for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008; Joe Donoghue, who was McCain’s legislative director; and Mike Murphy, a GOP political adviser who was a strategist at McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000.
Trump and McCain, R-Ariz., Often clashed, including over attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
This recommendation, the latest in a string of GOP statements in support of Biden, comes two days after the two-year anniversary of McCain’s death from brain cancer.
Earlier this week, more than two dozen former Republican lawmakers supported Biden for president, and at the Democratic National Convention last week, several other Republicans signed the former vice president. They included former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former eBay and Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman and former Rep. Susan Molinari of New York, who was among those on the list who released the Biden campaign on Monday.
