Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) told a crowd in Phoenix this week that he doesn’t believe the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would support Vice President Harris becoming president if McCain saw the conditions at the southern border.
The remark came just two days after McCain’s son, Army 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, revealed he will vote for Harris this fall, joining several top aides to McCain who have also have come out in support of the Democratic ticket.
“I do not believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today, and he sees what’s going on at the American southern border, that he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction she’s wrought,” Vance said Thursday.
Former President Trump and Vance have made the border a key issue in the presidential race against Harris, after the border wall was the GOP presidential nominee’s signature issue during his 2016 run for the White House.
Trump had a tempestuous relationship with McCain, who died of brain cancer in 2018.