John McCain’s Son Backs Kamala Harris

Jimmy McCain, the son of the late Senator John McCain, has announced he will support Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

In an interview with CNN, Jimmy McCain condemned Trump and and announced his support for Kamala Harris.

McCain, in the interview, shared he would help Harris in any way possible.

The son of John McCain later in the interview attacked Trump for visiting the Arlington cemetery despite the 45th president receiving an invite to the cemetery by Gold Star families.

Exclusive: John McCain’s youngest son speaks out about Trump's appearance at Arlington cemetery, calling it a "violation." Jimmy McCain also tells me he changed his registration to Democrat several weeks ago and plans to vote for Harris in November. https://t.co/iwMV7SC2V6

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 3, 2024

In 1999, John McCain filmed part of an actual political ad at Arlington Cemetery and then had to remove it when the Army rebuked him because he apparently filmed it without permission. https://t.co/746sTpGQ7g pic.twitter.com/hIzxO8Yxhl

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 3, 2024

Here’s what The Hill reported:

Jimmy McCain, the son of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), condemned former President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery as a “violation” and said he will vote for Vice President Harris.

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In an interview with CNN, the younger McCain said he changed his voter registration from independent to Democrat weeks ago and plans to vote for Harris in November. He also told CNN he “would get involved in any way I could” to help Harris get elected.

Jimmy McCain, who has served for 17 years in the military and is an intelligence officer, said he was angered by Trump’s conduct at the cemetery last week, adding “it was a violation.”

“It just blows me away,” he told CNN. “These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice” about being in a political ad.

“I just think that for anyone who’s done a lot of time in their uniform, they just understand that inherently — that it’s not about you there. It’s about these people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country,” he added.

Trump visited the cemetery to mark the anniversary of the 2021 Kabul airport attack that killed 13 U.S. service members. Trump has said family members of those killed asked him to visit and take pictures with them, but he has been criticized for using the graves as a campaign backdrop. A confrontation reportedly took place when cemetery staff members tried to stop Trump’s team from photographing and filming a solemn area of the cemetery set aside for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

You can’t make this up: Jimmy is angry at President Trump for showing up to honor 13 service members whose families invited him to Arlington and his description of it in the story is exactly what his Dad did during his campaign in 1999 pic.twitter.com/D8fM3Bsq9V

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 3, 2024

Per CNN:

When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery last week, 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain says he viewed it as a “violation.”

The youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain had already been moving away from the Republican Party — just weeks ago, he changed his voter registration to Democrat and plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November, he told CNN in an exclusive interview this week.

But he is speaking out now for the first time about Trump because of the former president’s conduct at the hallowed ground where several generations of McCain’s family, including his grandfather and great grandfather, are buried.

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“It just blows me away,” McCain, who has served in the military for 17 years, told CNN. “These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice” of whether to be a backdrop for a political campaign, he said.

“I just think that for anyone who’s done a lot of time in their uniform, they just understand that inherently — that it’s not about you there. It’s about these people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country.”

McCain’s decision to speak out now is part of his broader shift away from the Republican Party and his family’s famously conservative roots. After years as a registered independent, he says he registered as a Democrat several weeks ago and plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November, adding that he “would get involved in any way I could” to help her campaign.