
Obama Recalls Viral Moment During McCain's 2008 Campaign: 'Some Values Transcend Party'
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The former president spoke on how the late Republican senator's "character" compares to Donald Trump at a Kamala Harris rally.
Barack Obama reflected on late Sen. John McCain, his opponent in the 2008 election, and a now-viral moment from the Republican’s campaign that showed how his “character” compares to Donald Trump on Friday.
The former president, in a speech at a Kamala Harris campaign rally, cautioned that he didn’t want to “over-romanticize” his relationship with McCain and noted that the 2008 GOP presidential nominee was a “conservative to put it mildly.”
“But you know what, he understood that some values transcend party,” said Obama while campaigning for the current Democratic nominee in Tucson, Arizona.
“He believed an honest argument and hearing the views of other people. He didn’t demonize political opponents.”
He then referred to McCain’s response to a woman at a 2008 town hall-style event in Lakeville, Minnesota after she declared that she couldn’t “trust” Obama and pushed a baseless claim that he was “an Arab.”