{"id":115931,"date":"2024-10-19T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115931"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T04:57:51","slug":"barack-obama-contrasts-john-mccain-with-trump-at-arizona-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115931","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama contrasts John McCain with Trump at Arizona rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">TUCSON, Ariz. \u2014 Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump\u2019s character to that of the late Sen. John McCain during a packed rally at the University of Arizona. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Obama, who faced off against McCain in his successful bid for the White House in 2008, offered only kind words for his onetime political foe during his Friday remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/obamas-hit-campaign-trail-first-joint-appearances-harris-rcna176034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBeing here in Tucson, I\u2019m thinking about my friend, John McCain,\u201d said Obama, speaking to several thousand Arizonans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to over-romanticize our relationship,\u201d Obama continued, earning laughter from the crowd. \u201cBut you know what? He understood that some values transcend party. He believed in honest argument and hearing the views of other people. He didn\u2019t demonize his political opponents.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x\"><picture class=\"styles_image__1qciH\" data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241018-barack-obama-john-mccain-2008-ac-950p-aa37a2.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241018-barack-obama-john-mccain-2008-ac-950p-aa37a2.jpg 1x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241018-barack-obama-john-mccain-2008-ac-950p-aa37a2.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241018-barack-obama-john-mccain-2008-ac-950p-aa37a2.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241018-barack-obama-john-mccain-2008-ac-950p-aa37a2.jpg\" alt=\"barack obama john mccain politics political politicians\" height=\"1667\" width=\"2500\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption styles_caption__Pe5JC\" data-testid=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption__container\" data-testid=\"caption__container\">Then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and John McCain, R-Ariz., greet each other at the end of their third and final presidential debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., on Oct. 15, 2008.<\/span><span class=\"caption__source\" data-testid=\"caption__source\">Emmanuel Dunand \/ AFP via Getty Images file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Obama also praised McCain for defending him during the 2008 election when a woman told McCain during a town hall in Lakeville, Minnesota, that she didn\u2019t trust Obama and called him an \u201cArab.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cNo, ma&#8217;am, he&#8217;s a decent family man, citizen, who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues,\u201d responded McCain to the voter, generating claps from the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOne of the most disturbing things about this election and Donald Trump\u2019s rise in politics is how we seem to have set aside the values that people like a John McCain stood for,\u201d said Obama before going on to criticize Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWhen Donald Trump lies or cheats or bullies or shows utter disregard for our Constitution when he calls service members like John McCain losers because they died in battle or were captured \u2026 people make excuses for it, that it\u2019s okay so long as their side wins,\u201d said Obama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McCain was taken as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict and tortured. McCains\u2019 service earned him two Purple Hearts, along with more than a dozen other military accolades.\u00a0He went on to represent the state, both in the House and the Senate, for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While campaigning for president in 2015 in Ames, Iowa, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/romney-campaign-fights-back-487153219522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called McCain<\/a> a \u201closer\u201d in reference to his defeat to Obama before adding, \u201cHe\u2019s not a war hero\u2026 he was a war hero because he was captured.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump would go on to win Arizona in his first run for the presidency in 2016, but he would become the first Republican to lose the southwest state in 2020 since Bill Clinton won it as a Democrat in 1996.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since Trump\u2019s disparaging remarks, a new voting bloc has emerged in Arizona, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kamala-harris-mccain-republicans-arizona-trump-rcna175917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMcCain Republicans.\u201d <\/a>In 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris has tried to court the McCain wing of the Republican party in Arizona, complimenting him on the trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At a campaign rally in Chandler, Arizona, earlier this month, Harris recalled McCain saving the Affordable Care Act with a historic vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt required one more vote to keep it intact, and that vote was the late, great John McCain,\u201d Harris said in the Phoenix suburb. \u201cA great American, a war hero: John McCain. And I\u2019ll never forget that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was praise Obama repeated on Friday, as the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as \u201cObamacare,\u201d remains in effect due to McCain&#8217;s refusal to vote to repeal it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDonald Trump spent his entire presidency trying to dismantle it,\u201d said Obama. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cThanks to John McCain, he didn\u2019t do it,\u201d he added to thunderous applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/barack-obama-john-mccain-trump-arizona-rally-rcna176205\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. \u2014 Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump\u2019s character to that of the late Sen. 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