Bernie Sanders: John McCain is missed in Senate, Democrats wish him 'very, very best'

[TexasTowelie]

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.

Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/03/10/bernie-sanders-john-mccain-missed-senate-democrats-wish-him-very-best/412816002/

[rgbecker]

1. Say what you want about John McCain, Bernie knows it was McCain that saved Obamacare for another

day/fight.

I won't soon forget McCain walking into the Senate Chambers and turning his thumb down, sticking it to Trump and his comments about not liking POW's.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I will remember that, too.