Bernie Sanders: John McCain is missed in Senate, Democrats wish him 'very, very best'
Bernie Sanders expressed well wishes for Arizona's ailing senior senator, John McCain, ahead of his Sunday rally in downtown Phoenix.
"I will tell you this: John McCain's political views are very different than mine, but John McCain, I consider to be a friend, somebody I've worked with on veterans' issues," Sanders told The Arizona Republic.
"And I think John does have a unique place in the Senate right now where he is widely respected," Sanders continued. "Not only for his personal life and his role as a prisoner of war, but for his courage."
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who unsuccessfully sought the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, is headlining a noon political event at the Orpheum Theatre in McCain's hometown of Phoenix.
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