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TUCSON, Ariz. — Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump’s character with that of the late Sen. John McCain during a packed rally at the University of Arizona. Obama, who faced off against McCain in his successful bid for the White House in 2008, offered only kind words for his onetime political foe during his Friday remarks on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign. “Being here in Tucson, I’m thinking about my friend John McCain,” said Obama, speaking to several thousand Arizonans. “I don’t want to overromanticize our relationship,” Obama continued, earning laughter from the crowd. “But...

More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday. The majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020. The group wrote a letter announcing the endorsement, USA Today first reported. The letter said it was a reunion of sorts from 2020, though it added that additional Bush alumni in particular were added to the group this cycle that are opposing Trump and backing Harris. “Of course,...

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said President Biden will not be elected to another term “one way or another.” “Joe Biden can step aside for another candidate or lose in historic numbers in a few months — but one way or another he will not be President soon and this is something his family should start coming to terms with since they all seem to be living in a severe level of delusion,” McCain said in a post on social platform X Friday.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), went after Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake on Tuesday, blasting Lake’s attempts to dismiss as joking previous insults against her dad. “Kari Lake is trying to walk back her continued attacks on my Dad (& family) and all of his loyal supporters after telling them to ‘get the hell out,’” McCain said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Tuesday. “Guess she realized she can’t become a Senator without us,” McCain continued. “No peace, -—-. We see you for who you are – and are...

In retrospect, wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller for The Bulwark, it was inevitable that Republicans would go down this path. "For about a decade and a half now the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters — the erstwhile renegades the late John McCain dubbed 'wacko birds,'" wrote Miller. "That group has grown from only a handful of troublemakers to a significant bloc of Congress that’s bolstered by an additional group of 'closet normals' who dress...

Usually I’m reluctant to put words in the mouth of my late employer, Senator John McCain, other than those he instructed me to write at some point during our long association. Yet since his death I have so missed not only his company, but his voice in our national affairs, that I have at times been tempted to conjure it from my knowledge of the values and views that animated his distinctive appeals to Americans and the world. I wanted to hear him during President Donald Trump’s two impeachment trials. I wanted to hear him react to the travesty of...

Trump-Endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Trump-Endorsed State Senator Wendy Rogers totally triggered Biden endorser Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Senator John McCain, and sent her on an unhinged Twitter rant late last week. After randomly calling Kari a “bi*ch” for no reason, McCain continued her attacks by calling both of them, “hags.”Kari Lake always calls out the RINO McCain establishment in Arizona. Because of this, Meghan McCain, who can’t get over herself, hates her.The Fake News Media in Arizona was quick to defend Meghan McCain, claiming that this all stemmed from a Wendy Rogers tweet and attacking Kari...

Steve Schmidt, cofounder of the disgraced Lincoln Project and former presidential campaign manager for the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), admitted Friday that he did not actually vote for McCain in the 2008 election, won by Barack Obama.

Uncomfortable private conversations in politics have a way of leaking out into the mainstream in the age of social media and mountains of gossip. One major storyline, acknowledged by all inside DC but only vocalized by a few in media, is whether anyone actually believes that Joe Biden is going to run for president again in 2024. The question is, if not Joe, who? -snip- I believe sadly and wholeheartedly that former President Trump plans on running again, and given the current state of my party that slobbers all over anything MAGA-related, it is unlikely there is anything or anyone...

There are many reasons I am excited about last night's barn-burner election results in the Virginia governor's race. First and foremost it is a clean, direct repudiation of the insanity that has overtaken school boards in Virginia, especially the divisive, toxic and dangerous agenda that is Critical Race Theory. And it is a devastating kill shot for a Democratic party that has gone so far off track from where normal, rational mainstream Americans currently are. There is truly no way for anyone to spin this any other way (although just a quick glance at Twitter will show that some of...

Click here to view the full articleHow creepy is it when you find out that George Soros hired his own detective to work with the Senate Armed Forces Committee, chaired by NeverTrumper John McCain in order to frame Donald Trump by making it appear that he was colluding with Russia?This should surprise no one because we already knew that McCain sent an aide to get a copy of the Steele/Clinton/DNC/PerkinsCoieFusion GPS Dossier. He then shopped it around and then supplied the FBI with a copy of it in hopes that Hillary would be president.And it doesn’t surprise us that George...

Cindy McCain, the spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that she was “proud” she helped President Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election with her endorsement. Co-host Joy Behar said, “You famously crossed party lines and took a lot of heat to endorse Joe Biden for president in 2020. Were you surprised by how much pushback you got, and how big a leap was it for you to put yourself out there like that? That must have been rough.”

Meghan McCain on Wednesday slammed Republicans working to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her House GOP leadership position, promising “consequences one way or another” if she is forced out of her post. “I feel very defensive of Liz Cheney and if you do this, which it looks like they're gonna do, I promise you there will be consequences, one way or another there's going to be consequences,” McCain said on “The View.” In the fiery segment, McCain called the group of Republicans supporting the ouster of Cheney a “sausage fest of MAGA.” “Go ahead in this sausage fest of...

John McCain’s widow was censured by Arizona state Republicans for failing to support President Trump — and she took it in stride. “It is a high honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well … and who, like my late husband John, have been censured by the AZGOP. I’ll wear this as a badge of honor,” Cindy McCain tweeted Saturday evening.

John McCain will be the subject of an upcoming biopic about his life and decades-long career in politics. Stampede Ventures has optioned rights to “The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain,” a biography written by the late Arizona senator’s political adviser and friend Mark Salter, and plans to adapt it into a feature film. Salter is co-writing the script with television producer Craig Turk (“The Good Wife,” “FBI”). The film is being made with support from McCain’s family. His widow, Cindy McCain, will serve as an executive producer. “John’s story is one of incredible heroism, of serving causes greater than...

Meghan McCain told her fellow co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner needed to “be held accountable” for the rhetoric that led to the deadly riot at Capital Hill. McCain said, “They’re talking about police departments all over the country, about possible domestic attacks on all Capitols from domestic terrorists. We’re living in a time that it feels like we’re in a banana republic.”

Thursday on ABC’s “The View, co-host Meghan McCain said that “all Republicans and conservatives who still have clout” have to “invoke the 25th Amendment.” Reacting to the riot Wednesday on Capitol Hill, McCain said, “This is one of the great national tragedies of my lifetime. This is one of America’s darkest days. I have been absolutely despondent watching this. I’m here in D.C. As everyone knows, my sister-in-law works on Capitol Hill and the office door where she works, the window was busted out. I think that this is a good time to take a very hard look at where...

Meghan McCain hit back at President Trump early Friday morning after he criticized her father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), in a tweet. "Two years after he died, you still obsess over my dad. It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him. He served his country with honor, you have disgraced the office of the presidency," she tweeted, responding to Trump advising people to "check out last in his class John McCain, one of the most overrated people in D.C." in an earlier tweet. "You couldn't even pull...

Donald Trump: John McCain Peddled Fake Dossier ‘Garbage’ to Media and FBI President Donald Trump ripped the late Senator John McCain on Sunday for passing on the bogus opposition dossier to the FBI and the media. Trump mocked McCain for being “last in his class” after reading reports that the deceased senator and his associate David Kramer helped spread the dossier compiled by Christopher Steel to reporters and government officials. “So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) ‘last in his class’ (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it...

Shortened title. Full title: It should alarm all of us': John McCain issues warning about Trump and Russia in documentary set to be released a week after his death Senator John McCain appears in an upcoming documentary filmed before his death warning the United States about president Donald Trump and his ties to Russia. In a clip of Jack Bryan's Active Matters, McCain joins Hillary Clinton, Yahoo News chief investigative corespondent Michael Isikoff and others as they discuss Trump, the 2016 presidential election and Russian president Vladimir Putin. The documentary debuts in theaters on August 31, less than a week...