Meghan McCain, daughter of late Arizona Senator John McCain, has in contrast watching Joe Biden’s debate efficiency to her father’s “cognitive decline” throughout his battle with terminal mind most cancers.
“It sounds a bit of ridiculous however my dad died of mind most cancers, I do know what cognitive decline appears to be like like in a method or one other. I feel any caregiver for an getting older father or mother is aware of that,” McCain stated on her podcast, Citizen McCain, this week.
McCain stated that she was struck by the president’s weak efficiency towards Republican rival Donald Trump, the place he struggled to reply questions and his voice appeared frail.
She stated that she watched the talk whereas folding laundry and “dropped the garments on the ground” when Biden misspoke about Medicare.
“And to me, I felt saddened and uncomfortable after which very scared,” the Republican commentator stated.
McCain has posted persistently on X that she believes Biden ought to step down or the Democratic Occasion will threat shedding to Trump.
“Joe Biden can step apart for one more candidate or lose in historic numbers in just a few months – however a method or one other he is not going to be President quickly and that is one thing his household ought to begin coming to phrases with since all of them appear to be residing in a extreme degree of delusion,” she posted final week.
“Tremendous bizarre democrats would slightly lose massively to Trump than admit Biden has an issue,” she wrote in one other publish.
Please cease making us watch Biden humiliate himself.
I actually can’t take it anymore.
I really feel so sick and unhappy and terrible about all of this.
It’s completely heartbreaking. One thing is clearly improper with him .
I actually don’t perceive what his household is considering…
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 11, 2024
Biden’s debate efficiency in Atlanta final month has shaken confidence in his political future amongst voters and a rising variety of Democratic lawmakers. His subsequent interviews and press convention on Thursday night time have finished little to allay these fears.
McCain wrote earlier this week, begging the Biden household to, “cease making us watch Biden humiliate himself.”
The White Home has denied allegations that Biden has a degenerative mind illness and pointed to the president’s doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor’s neurological evaluation of the 81-year-old final yr. Dr O’Connor reported that there have been “no findings which might be in keeping with any cerebellar or different central neurological dysfunction”.
John McCain and Biden had been shut pals and allies all through their political careers, working collectively on laws regardless of their ideological variations,
When John McCain was recognized with an aggressive type of mind most cancers in 2017, Biden joined Meghan McCain on the TV present, The View, which she co-hosted on the time, to indicate his assist for her and the McCain household.
After John McCain’s loss of life in 2018, Biden delivered a transferring eulogy at his funeral. “My identify is Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I beloved John McCain,” he stated.