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Cindy McCain: Biden will lead USA "with dignity"
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Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Republican Senator John McCain, voted in favor of Joe Biden in the presidential election.
"We're Republicans, yes, but Americans first," McCain wrote on Twitter.
"In this race there is only one candidate who stands up for our nation's values and that is Joe Biden."
Her husband lived according to a motto: "The country first."
John McCain had a long friendship with Biden during his lifetime, despite different political ideas.
US President Donald Trump, on the other hand, never made a secret of his contempt for McCain.
Five years ago, Trump said during the election campaign that the Senator was not a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War.
"I like people who haven't been captured."
McCain was captured as a US Navy pilot in Vietnam and tortured by Viet Cong fighters.
Immediately after the Republican's death in 2018, Trump continued his attacks, saying, among other things, he was "never a fan of John McCain" and "never really liked" him.
Cindy McCain, however, apparently decided to support Joe Biden for another, current occasion.
At the beginning of September, US media reported that during a visit to France in 2018, Trump is said to have made contemptuous comments about US soldiers who died in the war.
Accordingly, he referred to those killed as "losers" and "idiots".
Biden sharply criticized Trump for it.
The President vehemently denies having said that.
At a virtual election rally on Tuesday, Biden finally announced that Cindy McCain wanted to speak out for him because of these Trump statements.
“Joe and I don't always agree, and I know he and John must have argued passionately,” wrote Cindy McCain on Twitter.
But Biden is "a good and honest man" who will lead the USA "with dignity".
In addition, he will be a commander-in-chief whom "the best armed forces in world history can rely on," wrote McCain.
Because Biden knows what it means to send a child into battle.
Biden's son Beau, who died of cancer in 2015, had served as a US soldier in the Iraq war.
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