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McCain’s enormous popularity in the United States and Arizona is a consequence of his long senatorial career of more than three decades, but especially the fact that McCain was a veteran of the United States Army and a former prisoner of war, tortured for five years in Vietnam.
And this harsh episode in McCain’s life has been mocked by Trump on several occasions. “I like people who haven’t been caught … I don’t like people who lose,” Trump told McCain during the 2015 presidential campaign that led to the White House.
The godfather of one of McCain’s sons and a good friend of McCain, Tommy Espinoza, businessman and Democratic activist very involved in politics, speaks superlatively in an interview with EFE about the former war veteran, although he was not always so. I agree with him on certain ideological issues.
But the love and respect between them was so great that a month and a half before he died, McCain asked him to speak at his funeral. Two years later, Espinoza smiles when he sees Trump lose the election, both in Arizona and nationally.
“A lot of people across the country, including the Latino community here in Arizona, voted against Trump because of his comments on McCain,” said Espinoza, who insisted the attacks were “equal to zero.” .
But, says Espinoza, beyond the disparaging remarks, another key element that has made Arizona and many Republicans prefer Biden is the excellent relationship between McCain and the president-elect.
“Joe Biden was very good friends with the senator (McCain – no): they went on vacation together, they had some very intense discussions,” says the businessman. And this friendship caused both McCain’s wife and daughter, Cindy and Meghan, respectively, to go public during this year’s election campaign and announce their support for Biden. Cindy, a bone marrow Republican, even joined Biden’s transition team.
Because of this, Biden was at the forefront of Arizona, an invincible conservative stronghold since 1996, when Democrat Bill Clinton won the state. Before Clinton, only Harry Truman had achieved this performance in 1948.
In fact, McCain’s family congratulated Biden on Saturday after several outlets reported the former Democratic vice president as the winner of the presidential election.
In a post on social media, Meghan McCain launched a new attack on the acting president, whom she repeatedly criticized for disrespecting her father. “On a very personal note. I am relieved and looking to the future because we have a president who respects the prisoners of war who have been captured,” she wrote on her Twitter account.
For her part, the Republican senator’s widow called for national unity and called on the American people to work together to improve the country. “Congratulations to my dear friend and President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. It is time to put politics aside and focus on building a stronger America,” wrote Cindy McCain on her Twitter account.
At the same time, McCain’s impact on the conservative Latino community in this southern state, which shares a border with Mexico, was relevant to Arizona changing its political orientation. This is the opinion of immigration expert Ray Ibarra Maldonado, a Phoenix resident who has worked closely with Senator McCain’s office on many cases. “There are many independent voters and Latino Republicans who loved John McCain immensely. The scandal with Trump cost him a lot (the current leader of the White House – no), not only here, but throughout the country,” said the lawyer. .
The reality is that McCain has always been elegant with his political rivals, as was the case in 2008, when he admitted defeat to Democrat Barack Obama. Now, it can be said that McCain took revenge posthumously: Trump will leave the White House after losing in his beloved state of Arizona, concludes EFE.
