Cindy McCain narrated a Democratic National Convention video celebrating the bond between her late husband, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, and 2020 Democratic president nominee Joe Biden.
“My husband and Vice President Biden enjoyed a 30+ year friendship dating back to before their years serving together in the Senate, so I was honored to accept the invitation from the Biden campaign to participate in a video celebrating their relationship,” Cindy McCain tweeted ahead of the segment featuring in Tuesday night’s convention programming.
My husband and Vice President Biden enjoyed a 30+ year friendship dating back to before their years serving together in the Senate, so I was honored to accept the invitation from the Biden campaign to participate in a video celebrating their relationship.https://t.co/Y6XOnBC1IW
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) August 18, 2020
McCain, whose husband was the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, joins the likes of former GOP Ohio Gov. John Kasich and George W. Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell in vouching for Biden over President Trump this 2020 election cycle. She doesn’t explicitly endorse Biden’s bid but speaks to the closeness of their two families and his character in the recording.
“I was the Navy Senate liaison and used to carry your bags on overseas trips,” John McCain says of the pair’s meeting in the 1970s after he returned from Vietnam.
Biden, who was a young senator from Delaware at the time, replies: “The son-of-a-gun never carried my bags. He was supposed to carry my bags, damn it, but he never carried my bags.”
The McCain family, including View host Meghan McCain, have criticized Trump, particularly to defend the late patriarch. During the 2016 Republican primary, for instance, Trump mocked John McCain, who died in 2018, for being a prisoner of war, saying he preferred people “who weren’t captured.”
Meghan McCain this month made her support of Biden contingent, in part, on his choice of a running mate.
“I really want to see who he chooses, and I want to see how this plays out,” she said.
In response to Washington Examiner reporting last year that the McCain family would publicly back Biden, Cindy described the two-term vice president as “a wonderful man and a dear friend of the McCain family.”
“However, I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics,” she said.
