Hawkish Republican Sen. John McCain said late Monday he remains unable to wrap his head around Donald Trump’s evolving stances on national security and foreign policy matters.
“I don’t understand it, so it’s hard for me to think a lot about it,” McCain told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “It seems to vary from day to day.”
The Senate Committee on Armed Services chairman and former GOP presidential nominee called out Trump’s most recent remarks that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was not important.
“NATO is probably the most important alliance historically than any in recent history because thanks to NATO, we won the Cold War and NATO continues to be a bulwark that may be necessary in the future given Mr. Putin’s behavior,” McCain explained.
The Arizona senator admitted the GOP front-runner’s foreign policy rhetoric has resonated with voters, despite it not making any sense.
McCain was one of 65 national security experts who banded together to write a letter to conservative voters earlier this month telling people to seriously consider Trump’s positions.
“At a time when our world has never been more complex or more in danger … I want Republican voters to pay close attention to what our party’s most respected and knowledgeable leaders and national security experts are saying about Mr. Trump, and to think long and hard about who they want to be our next Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world,” McCain had said in a statement.
McCain has not endorsed any of the remaining Republican candidates. He said Monday that Ohio Gov. John Kasich “has had a lot of experience” on foreign policy issues, but left it at that.
