Cindy McCain may have put a final nail in Donald Trump's Arizona Electoral Coffin.
This evening, the wife of the late Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential Nominee, John McCain, has formally endorsed 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden for the November 3, 2020 elections.
She joins other famed Republican public servants like former House Representative Jim Kolbe, Senator Jeff Flake, and Attorney General Grant Woods.
She had already hinted at this, taping a segment at the August Democratic Convention highlighting the friendship between both men.
In announcing the endorsement via tweet, Mrs. McCain said:
"My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden. Joe and I don't always agree on the issues, and I know he and John certainly had some passionate arguments, but he is a good and honest man. He will lead us with dignity," she said. "He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight."
The former Vice President replied:
"I'm deeply honored to have your support and your friendship. This election is bigger than any one political party. It requires all of us to come together as one America to restore the soul of the nation. Together, we'll get it done."
Recent polls show Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in Arizona by an average of five points
Cindy McCain may have just helped to deliver the Grand Canyon State to him.
In a blistering attack on Donald Trump's comments at a rally in Ohio on September 22, 2020, when he said that while the COVID 19 affects the elderly, especially those with health conditions, younger people, especially children, are not as affected and schools should open up.
His exact words, (please link below) which could have been out of 1970's Sci-Fi Classics like Logans Run and Soylent Green, were:
"Now we know that it affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and if they have other problems. That's what (not who) it really affects. You know, in some states, thousands of people, below the age of 18, nobody, like they have a strong immune system. Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system. But it affects virtually nobody. It's an amazing thing. By the way, open your schools."
This is the same Donald Trump, who as CNN's Jim Acosta reminded Kayleigh McEnany at the White House Briefing Room on the day the country officially crossed the 200,000 fatality threshold, that told Bob Woodward during one of his 19 interviews with him for the book Rage, that COVID 19 affects the young as well as the old. Please see the exchange in the video link below.
In Joe Biden's response to Mr. Trump, the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee scolded the President of Betrayal and Liar in Chief for saying the elderly:
"Are not nobodies. They're our parents. Our grandparents. The people who raised us. Who guided us. People opened their hearts to us. People sacrificed everything for us and for this nation and all too often in this pandemic, the pain of losing them has been made worse because we haven't been able to be with them as they passed.
Biden then blasted Trump again for being "wrong on the facts," pointing out:
"The Virus affects everyone young and old."
"Essential workers like law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, nurses who put themselves in the line for us."
"The Virus spares no one."
The former Vice President also said:
"Maybe Donald Trump sees these people as nobodies. I don't. We lost 200,000 moms and dads, sons and daughters, friends and coworkers and not a single one of them is a nobody."
"200,000 people we used to hug and hold. 200,000 people had hopes and dreams. 200,000 people we loved...This virus has left a huge hole in the heart of this country and President Trump wants to write off those we lost as nobodies."
"This President is trying to erase the reality we're living in today because he thinks it helps him politically. We can't let this happen. We can't become numb to the toll that's taken on us, our country, and our families. It's not who we are as Americans."
"We can and we will get control of this virus but we need a President who will honestly face the problem and lead. This President has proven he can do neither. He can neither face the problem nor lead. I will."
Joe Biden has been laying out increasing populist themes in recent appearances and speeches over the last week.
Many of those themes were reinforced in a speech to Aluminum Union Workers in Wisconsin on Monday, September 21, 2020.
Please read the following examples of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee's Populist references below.
On Donald Trump not wanting to provoke a panic about the severity of COVID 19.
"When Donald Trump said he didn’t want to create a panic, he wasn’t just talking about a health panic, he was focused on the stock market. Trump was worried that if he told the public the truth, there would be a panic on the financial markets and that would hurt his chances of being reelected."
On this being a battle between Scranton and Park Avenue.
"That’s how Donald Trump views the world. He sees the world from Park Avenue. I see it from where I grew up in a town like this from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Hard scrapple, hard-working town, just like this and so many more across Wisconsin. When you look at the world from Park Avenue, basically all you can see is Wall Street. And you think Wall Street built this country? Well, let me tell you. You think that Donald Trump as Donald Trump does, that handing out a $1.5 trillion tax giveaway primarily for large corporations and wealthy qualifiers is an economic plan? You think like Trump, that $15 an hour is too much for America’s essential workers. You eliminate overtime pay for millions of American workers. You try to take away healthcare from 20 million Americans in the middle of this pandemic."
On Trumps Trade War with China and how it helped Trump but not the American People.
"You think being tough with China is a trade deal that opens the door to big banks to make money in China. That’s basically all we got out of it. A lot of dairy farmers and farmers and manufacturing went under...I didn’t know this at first. I couldn’t understand why he was so excited about it. America’s bank, Citibank, they got to open up in Beijing. They weren’t able to before. He scuttled a deal to lower prescription drug prices. He probably had a deal, but he wanted the pharmaceutical companies before they lowered the prices to do something that they thought was unethical. He asked them to send out $100 checks with his name on it to the elderly saying that, that’s the down payment. They said, “We’re not going to do that.” They weren’t going to do it so the deal fell apart. And now some 30 million Americans are on unemployment."
On Trumps Tax Cuts for the Wealthy.
"You think the way to get the American economy back on track is to give another gigantic multimillion-dollar tax cut to the very wealthy. And here’s what they’re doing. The tax rate all of you pay in here is going to be higher than billionaires who make their money on investments. This is not an exaggeration. He wants to lower, again, costing $30 billion to the Treasury, lower the capital gains tax to 15%. So while someone who makes their money is off the market is paying the 15% rate, you’re paying at a 24, 26, 28, depending on your tax bracket rate. It’s not right. Workers here pay close to twice that amount. Close to 30%. Trump’s tax cut for the wealthy is going to cost billions of dollars a year and who’s hide does it come out? It comes out of your hide. The simple truth is that Donald Trump ran for office saying he would represent the forgotten man and women in this country. And then once he got in office, he forgot us. Not only did he forget them, the truth is that he never really respected us very much."
On Trump's Contempt for his Very Own Supporters.
"Oh, he loves his rallies but the next time he holds one look closely. Trump keeps his distance from anyone in the rally. The folks who come are packed in tight as they can be risking disease, mostly without a mask, but not Trump. He safely he keeps his distance. They showed a couple of days ago, a reporter trying to come up or someone come through, he said, “No, no. You got to keep your distance. I don’t get close to these people.” He’s willing to let everybody else in the crowd risk their life, but not him. And now we know what he really thinks of the people who come to his rallies from someone who saw it up close and wrote about it up close in the White House. The former employee said he calls his own supporters, “Disgusting.” He said one of the benefits of this pandemic, cause he doesn’t have to shake their hands."
On Trump being a Snob that looks down on People.
"I’ve dealt with guys like Trump my whole life. Some neighbor where I come who would look down on us because we didn’t have a lot of money or your parents didn’t go to college. Guys who think they’re better than you. Guys who inherit everything they’ve ever gotten in their life and squander it. Guys who stretch and squeeze and stiff electricians and plumbers and contractors working on their hotels and casinos and golf courses just to put a few more bucks in their pocket. Guys who do everything they can to avoid paying their taxes they owe because they figure the rest of us, the little people, we can pick up the tab for the country. Do you have any doubt that the reason we haven’t seen Trump’s tax returns is because they didn’t want to know what he paid?"
On Treating Everyone Equally.
"I’ve learned a few simple lessons from my parents that I’ve never forgotten. One is from my mother. She used to say, and this the God’s truth, “Joey, remember nobody’s better than you, but everyone’s your equal. Nobody’s better, but everyone’s your equal.” It’s pretty simple. We’re all equal the way I was raised and we should be treated that way. I have to admit, I got my back up a little bit recently about something I saw and was on national television about the race. Some of the national… I don’t think they meant anything by it, but I don’t think they know how insulting it is. It was, Joe Biden, if elected, will be only the first president who didn’t go to an Ivy League school in a long time. Somehow that meant I didn’t belong."
"How could a guy who went to a state school be president? My reaction was the same it has been my whole life and I have to admit it and I’m not proud of it, but you close the door on me because you think I’m not good enough, guess what? Like all you guys, I’m going to bust down that door. My guess is a lot of you feel the same way about a lot of slights you’ve had because of our standing, quote, unquote. I say it’s about time that a state school president sat in the Oval Office because you know what? If I’m sitting there, you’re going to be sitting there too."
On Trump's Economy
"The president talks all the time about how great the economy is. Well, I don’t know what y’all think, but where I come from and a lot of places in this state, it’s not so great. In the middle of this pandemic, now, the billionaires in this country have seen their wealth increase by $800 billion. Let me explain that again. All the billionaires in America during the pandemic, their net worth combined according to studies have increased by $800 billion. And the rest of us, well, 30 million people are unemployed. 20 million Americans are at risk of losing their home because they can’t find the rent payment. Seven plus million Americans are working part time who want to work full time. Evictions are on the rise. And for a lot of families, the kids are at home, not in school. I believe it’s the working people of this country that need a tax break."
On dividing Blue State COVID 19 Death Rates from Red State Ones (PERHAPS THE EYE-OPENING PART OF THE ADDRESS.)
The president said, “If you take out the blue states run by Democratic governors and just look at the red states, Republican governors are doing quite well.” Now, of course, it’s a simple, factual matter, it’s just not true. If you just count all the deaths in the red states, we are number two in the world in death just behind Brazil. But more fundamentally, reflects on the part of Donald Trump that he has a deeply flawed and divisive view of the United States, this nation and the job he holds. Think about what he’s saying. He’s saying, if you live in a state like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, states with Democratic governors, you’re not his problem. He has no obligation to you. He’s not responsible for you as president, your family or your wellbeing. I don’t see the presidency that way. I don’t pledge allegiance to red states of America or blue states of America, I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. One nation, indivisible under God. For real. I’m running as a proud Democrat, but I’m not going to govern as a Democratic president, I’m going to govern as president.
The former Vice President also offered a variety of progressive solutions to the problems facing the American People like fighting COVID 19, reinforcing his Build Back Better Plan, rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, and expanding on the Affordable Care Act.
He also pledged to honor the nation's fallen and active veterans.
But the highlight of what is becoming an increasingly standard stump address is the theme that Donald Trump is the rich snobby charlatan who cares for no one in the middle or bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
It is a battle between the ideals and aspirations of people that come from places like Scranton and the greedy plutocratic self-interest designs of those who reside on Wall Street.
It is a very effective speech that, in some version, should be given again and again.
The Biden/Harris Campaign has released an ad showing how people under Democratic Presidential Administrations have been better at job creation (and prosperity by extension) than Republicans.
Kennedy/Johnson Administrations: 16 million jobs created.
Nixon/Ford Administrations: 11 million jobs created.
Jimmy Carter: Ten million jobs created (in four years.)
Ronald Reagan: 16 million jobs created.
George H.W. Bush: Three million jobs created.
Bill Clinton: 23 million jobs created.
George W. Bush: One million jobs created.
Barack Obama: 12 million jobs created.
Donald Trump: Five Million Jobs Lost
Democratic Administrations: 70 million jobs created.
Republican Administrations: 30 million jobs created.
That means there are 40 million more reasons to vote for Biden and Harris in 43 days.
Voters should also remember that it is Democratic Administrations that gave the people:
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
The Minimum Wage
The Affordable Care Act
The Right to Unionize
The Civil Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act
The Family and Medical Leave Act
Those are nine more reasons to vote for the Democratic Ticket on November 3, 2020, along with Saving the courts, the soul of the country, and the American Ideal.
In a series of ads targeting vulnerable Republican Senators, Priorities USA has released "Together AZ," a 30-second spot calling for Arizonans to elect Joe Biden and Mark Kelly and send Donald Trump and Martha McSally into retirement.
The narrator starts off saying "Together we march because Donald Trump and Martha McSally failed us."
The ad then states that both have failed in:
Providing racial justice.
Combatting the Coronavirus.
Helping the economy.
The narrator then accuses of McSally of "going along with Trump for years and refusing to speak up and do what's right."
The ad concludes with:
"We can't stand another four years of this. Together, we must vote louder than ever for a better America. Vote Mark Kelly and Joe Biden."
Just vote Democrat totally down the ticket if you agree with all the candidate's positions.
