John McCain’s widow was censured by Arizona Republicans for not supporting President Trump – and she took it lightly.
“It is a great honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well … and who, like my late husband John, have been censored by AZGOP. I’m going to use this as an emblem of honor, ”Cindy McCain tweeted Saturday night.
Around midnight, the comment got 125,000 likes on Twitter, where “Mrs. McCain ”was a trend.
Trump had infamously disparaged McCain’s Vietnam War hero and U.S. Senator husband – who was captured when his plane was shot down by North Vietnamese soldiers during the war, leading to years of torture.
Trump once said that John McCain was only considered a hero because he was captured, adding, “I like people who have not been captured.”
Arizona Republicans formally censored Cindy McCain on Saturday because she crossed the lines of the party to endorse Joe Biden for president, “supported globalist policies and candidates” and “condemned President Trump for his criticisms of her husband and wrongly positioned behaviors about the actual presidential results “. AZCentral.com reported.
In endorsing Biden in September, Cindy McCain noted that he was the only candidate in the dispute that defended our values as a nation. ”
The party also blamed Arizona Governor Doug Ducey for restricting “personal freedoms” with emergency rules during the pandemic, and former Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizonan whose alleged errors included having “condemned the Republican Party, rejected populism and rejected the interests of the American people over globalist interests. ”
In response, Flake tweeted two photos of himself in possession of Biden alongside Cindy McCain and Ducey, with the caption: “Good company”.
“If tolerating President Trump’s behavior is necessary to remain in the good graces of AZGOP, I am very well to be out,” Flake also wrote.
Arizona proved to be a crucial turning point that Biden won.