Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance said Thursday from Arizona that he doesn’t believe former Sen. John McCain would endorse Vice President Kamala Harris if he were alive and seeing the southern border today.
Vance made the remarks after the late senator’s son endorsed Harris earlier this week.
“I don’t believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today and he saw what’s happening on the southern border of the United States that he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction that she’s caused,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “I really don’t believe that.”
McCain, one of Arizona’s most popular senators and the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, died in 2018 from an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain was a fierce critic of Donald Trump and even requested that the former president not be allowed to attend his funeral. Trump, president at the time, did not send a standard laudatory statement after the death of the late senator.
Earlier this week, McCain’s son, Jimmy McCain, said he had registered as a Democrat and will vote for Harris In November, Jimmy McCain told CNN, which first announced his support for Harris, that he was speaking out after members of Trump’s campaign were accused of shoving an Army staffer at Arlington National Cemetery. The Army employee allegedly tried to prevent the former president’s campaign from campaigning at the cemetery. Trump has denied there was an incident, while the Army said the cemetery worker was “sharply pushed aside.”
When a reporter asked Vance why he supported the bid, he replied, “Who cares what somebody’s family thinks about a presidential race?” He added that he only cared about what Arizonans think about the presidential race.
“John McCain died five, six, seven years ago? And the media started talking about what John McCain’s family said about Donald Trump,” Vance said. “I don’t know if anyone noticed, but almost all of Tim Walz’s family supported Donald Trump. Is that more important than what John McCain’s son said? I think so.”
The Ohio senator was also asked about his thoughts on McCain’s legacy. Vance said he had never met McCain, but he wished McCain “didn’t let his personal grievances get in the way” of serving the country — something the senator said he likes about Trump.
Trump has previously mocked McCain, who was taken prisoner while fighting in the Vietnam War, saying he liked “people who weren’t captured.” He also said that he was “I’ve never been a fan of John McCain” and “I never will be.”
Vance reiterated his focus on voters: “No matter what John McCain’s family thinks, no matter what John McCain would have ultimately thought about Kamala Harris’ policies, my goal here is to persuade every person in this room and every person in the state of Arizona that their lives will be better if they elect Donald J.
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