Video focuses on long friendship between Biden and McCain's late husband, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden pauses during a virtual grassroots fundraiser at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 12, 2020.Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden’s close friendship with her late husband, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
In an advance clip from the video shared with The Associated Press, Cindy McCain talks about how Biden, then a Delaware senator, met her husband when John McCain was assigned to be a military aide for him on a trip overseas. The two became friends, and the families would gather for picnics in the Bidens’ backyard.“They would just sit and joke. It was like a comedy show, sometimes, to watch the two of them,” she says in the clip.
Both Cindy McCain and her daughter Meghan have been outspoken critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, and the family is long-time friends with the Bidens. Trump targeted John McCain personally in 2015, saying the former prisoner of war wasn’t a hero “because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” McCain later angered Trump with his dramatic thumbs-down vote against repealing former President Barack Obama’s health care law.
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