A fired-up Biden asked if that referred to John McCain, the late Arizona senator and Vietnam war hero whose legacy the speech honored -- or Biden's own son Beau, who served in Iraq and died of brain cancer in 2015 aged 46.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-duncan-cnn/

His first stop, however, was to '30 Rock,' to sit for an interview with Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace, who previously worked for Republicans including President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-12250499/President-Biden-awkwardly-walks-MSNBC-set-hes-air.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

However, this talk down was augmented by another opponent in the 2008 contest Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who proclaimed on CNN's "State of the Union" that Russia was a gas station masquerading as a country.

Source: https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-US-as-the-Ottoman-in-U-Hegemony_Ottoman-Empire_Russia_Ukraine-230224-280.html

That's the real Obama," and of course the signature approval of the message by none other than John McCain.

Source: https://www.inquisitr.com/when-a-controversial-ad-compared-barack-obama-to-britney-spears-paris-hilton

The following day he abruptly ended his campaign and endorsed John McCain.

Source: https://smdp.com/2023/05/26/rudy-booty-and-fall-from-grace/

The late Arizona Senator John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, praised Feinstein's release of the report and said, "Most of all, I know the use of torture compromises what most distinguishes us from our enemies."

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/dianne-feinstein-dead-long-serving-senator-us-3809191?cid=cna_flip_070214