McCain in Twilight: An Unfettered Voice Against Trumpism<br />Mr. McCain, who was the Republican nominee for president in 2008, has never been a fan of Mr. Trump, who once derisively referred to the senator’s time as a prisoner of war by saying, “I like people who weren’t captured.” During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. McCain at first grudgingly supported Mr. Trump,<br />and then revoked his endorsement after the release of an “Access Hollywood” tape in which Mr. Trump boasted that he had sexually assaulted women.<br />That speech was “the kind of speech one gives when they’re leaving,” said Senator Patrick<br />J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, who has served for decades in the Senate with Mr. McCain.<br />In twin speeches — one in July, where he issued a call to bipartisanship in the Senate,<br />and another in Philadelphia this past week, where he railed against “half-baked, spurious nationalism” — Mr. McCain has taken on both his colleagues and President Trump.
