Flashbacks 2020 - ‘My party has left me’: Cindy McCain on why she endorsed a Democrat for the first time
"Trump to America Today: Democracy Is for Suckers and Losers"
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In a conversation with The 19th, McCain discusses her Joe Biden endorsement, women voters and her hopes for the future of the Republican Party.
Mariel Padilla General Assignment Reporter
October 30, 2020, 12:35 p.m. CT
Cindy McCain has supported the Republican presidential candidate in every election cycle since she was 18, but this year is different.
In a conversation with The 19th’s Washington correspondent Amanda Becker, McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, explained why she formally endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden for president. Since Trump’s inauguration, she watched what she called a “lack of integrity” and “lack of compassion” in the White House. But the “last straw,” she said, was when she read in The Atlantic that Donald Trump had allegedly called fallen members of the military “losers” and “suckers.”