McCain family to support Biden in 2020 race in bid to defeat Trump

[DavidDvorkin]

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Source: Washington Examiner

The late Sen. John McCain's family plans to support former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid, backing the Democrat not only in his party's crowded primary race but also in a general election matchup with President Trump, the Washington Examiner has learned.

In an extraordinary snub to Trump, who derided McCain's Vietnam War service and mocked him even after his death last August at age 81, the McCain family is preparing to break with the Republican Party. McCain represented the party in Congress for 35 years and was chosen as its presidential nominee in 2008, losing to Barack Obama.

Sources close to both Biden's presidential campaign and the McCains said that at some point during the White House race, McCain's widow Cindy, 64, and daughter Meghan, 34, a host on "The View," will offer their public support in the hope of removing Trump from office in 2020.

Read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mccain-family-to-support-biden-in-2020-race-in-bid-to-defeat-trump

[jb5150]

1. I'll believe it when I see it ...

….

[charlyvi]

2. I believe it.

Biden is a very close friend of the family....like on a Lindsay Graham level. The relationship goes back for years, and the McCains detest Trump.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. Biden won't be getting my vote

if he's in bed with the phony baloney McCains.

[elleng]

6. How about looking at it differently, THEY're 'in bed' with HIM!

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Distinction without a difference

I had enough "let's be bi-partisan" with Obama. YMMV

[David__77]

13. I hope so.

I think it's totally fine and great for a Democratic candidate to get Republican endorsements!

I don't have the sense that Biden would be too aligned with John McCain's foreign policy.

[moriah]

8. He'll get my vote if he's the nominee.

Whoever we nominate will get my vote.

Until then I'm not going to play the "Never-Person" game.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Meaning that if he's the nominee, you won't vote for hiim?

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Hopefully I won't have to make that decision

Biden has been running for president since 1988. His attitudes are steeped in the 1950s. America needs to move on from "Uncle Joe".

[mac56]

15. Soooo.... you're saying you won't vote for him.

Gotcha.

[titaniumsalute]

17. Well if you don't vote for whomever the Dem nominee is then you might as well vote for Trump

[bearsfootball516]

11. That's very much a violation of the TOS.

If you’re talking about the general.

[louis c]

16. That's a great political perspective...

...let's get as few votes as possible.(Sarcasm intended)

Politics is about math. Addition is way better than subtraction or division.

[louis c]

4. These are the type of votes we need in the GE.

I saw Kasich on cable this morning talking glowingly about Biden while demeaning Trump. He predicted Biden would win against Trump.

[elleng]

5. Right!

[Dawson Leery]

10. They should have made the moral choice to vote for Hillary last time.

With that said, the anti-Trump right is going to have to be pragmatic in order to remove the sludge that is Donald Trump.
Ironically, the Neo-Cons are on board with most of the Democratic nominees.

[MelissaB]

14. Cindy McCain says this isn't the case.

Link to tweet

[moriah]

18. Intresting. Is the Washington Examiner at all reliable/considered mainstream news?

I see some pretty right-wing articles there, and this could have just been clickbait.

[Omaha Steve]

19. After a review by forum hosts...locking.

The Washington Examiner is not a reputable source for LBN.

Also...per the decisions and instructions of the DU Admins, all OP's regarding Democratic candidates for the Party's nomination for President are to be posted in the Democratic Primaries Forum.