(The Center Square) – Vice President Harris extended her stay in Arizona following her rally at the Gila River Indian Community Thursday afternoon to attend a “Country Over Party” event in Scottsdale with Arizona Republicans who will be voting for her come election day.
Mesa Mayor John Giles, one of Arizona’s first Republican leaders to publicly endorse Harris, introduced her Friday afternoon.
“I thank you. You’ve been an extraordinary friend and I really, I so appreciate the courage that you have shown to be so open and forward about the importance of us working together,” Harris said to Giles.
Harris spent a good part of her speech talking about Arizona’s late U.S. Senator John McCain whom she served with briefly in the Senate, calling him “a great American hero.”
“John McCain stood on principle,” Harris said. “He stood on a belief of the importance of patriotism, of sacrifice and what we stand for as a country. That is but one individual who we all respect who put country before party in terms of what they thought was right.”