McCain's ghost could haunt Vance at the debate

October 2, 2024

The late senator appears to be occupying the thoughts of Trump's vice presidential running mate, JD Vance.

As far as I know, the only person who has a direct connection to the spirit of the late Senator John McCain is Donald Trump, in whose mind McCain apparently purchased a vacation property.

We felt this not long ago when Trump staged a grotesquely inappropriate campaign photo op at Arlington National Cemetery.

It came the week of the sixth anniversary of McCain's death, and left some recalling how Trump disparaged the five years of torture McCain spent in a North Vietnamese prison camp and how he said of McCain: “He's not a war hero. “He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who haven’t been captured.”

These things come up with some regularity, and the media is once again reminded of what The New Yorker magazine called Trump's “unbridled obsession” with McCain, even after his death.

However, it appears that McCain has been expanding his forceful parameters of late, occasionally drifting into the skull of Trump's vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance.

Is the late senator now haunting JD Vance too?

I'm now wondering if McCain's ghost will show up at Tuesday's debate between Vance and Gov. Tim Walz.

Vance, like Trump, seems to hear whispers from beyond.

When McCain's son Jimmy announced not long ago that he would support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election, Vance in Phoenix criticized the young McCain and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, saying, “The fact that Kamala Harris is a couple “I think the number of people who have been rejected from the Republican Party, who no longer have any influence on our party to support her, speaks poorly of her and says nothing good about her campaign.”

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But that statement alone tells us a lot about Trump and Vance and how the ghost of John McCain haunts them both.

As Vance also testifies: “I don’t believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today and saw what’s going on at America’s southern border, he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction she has wrought . “I really don’t believe that.”

The rest of us, however, believe that only someone confused by McCain's mind would suggest such a thing.

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Especially given McCain's public statements about Trump.

It goes all the way back to the release of that disgusting Access Hollywood video of Trump's vulgar, misogynistic comments toward women in 2016.

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At the time, McCain said: “There is no excuse for Donald Trump’s offensive and demeaning comments in the just-released video; No woman should ever be a victim of this type of inappropriate behavior. He alone bears the burden of his behavior and alone should bear the consequences.”

Later, during Trump's presidency, McCain criticized him for kowtowing to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, saying of Trump: “No previous president has ever degraded himself more humiliatingly before a tyrant.”

McCain's criticism frightened Trump then, and it still frightens him.

A year after McCain's death, Trump learned during a state visit to Japan that the Navy's USS John McCain could be in sight during his stay. The coincidence frightened him so much that he ordered a tarp to be placed over the ship's name.

The extent to which McCain also defends Vance could become clear during the vice presidential debate.

Especially if Walz were to start a dialogue with his opponent by saying “Boo!”

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McCain's ghost could haunt Vance at the debate

The late senator appears to be occupying the thoughts of Trump's vice presidential running mate, JD Vance.

Is the late senator now haunting JD Vance too?

Will the specter of McCain appear in the debate?

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The late senator appears to be occupying the thoughts of Trump's vice presidential running mate, JD Vance.

Is the late senator now haunting JD Vance too?

Will the specter of McCain appear in the debate?

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