his foreign policy knowledge and might in germany today at this global security conference. if he does join the race, how does that change the dynamic? i think he automatically becomes a front-runner, if not the front-runner. and look. one of the benefits that joe biden has, that none of the other democrats have, is that joe biden, he is who he is, right? so for example, donald trump, when donald trump was running in the republican primarition everybody kind of knew who he was so when he said something offensive, provocative, crazy, it really didn t hurt him. it was baked in the cake. i think marco rubio had a bad debate. it actually hurt him. and i think likewise, joe biden will have the same been fit. if a scandal happen, if there is a slip of the tongue, it is baked in the cake. that s joe being joe. democrats, they don t have to worry about winning the popular
i think he s got nothing to lose. there s no reason why he should have regrets. i think he regretted not having run in 2016. i think, you know, to me he is the anti-trump. he is all empathy, human emotion, he s got such compassion, he s got such a basis of policy knowledge, foreign policy knowledge, he s jovial, he s a unifier. he s got family favalues. it would be a foil and a contrast to trump. the question is can he get through a primary? look, we ll have all of those proverbial age questions, is he too old to run? but, folks, if he runs, we re assuming he s running against donald trump, right? it s not like he s running against lebron james or hussein bolt or something. just put them both on a treadmill and whoever is left
exactly right. the response to the sad announcement has just been incredible. just this morning, the senator s wife, cindy mccain tweeted the entire mccain family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from around the world. thank you. of course, yesterday we got word from his family, the six-term u.s. senator from i remember arizona and american hero decided to stop the treatment from the glio blastoma. and he s described this way. he s our senator, but he s a national and even international senator. he s almost the united states representative to the rest of the world because he transcends presidents because of his senate tenure, and his foreign policy knowledge and his willingness to engage in those tough issues. he also said this, that there
now along with other members of the family and some friends. they are at their ranch here in arizona and this morning cindy mccain tweeted, quote, the entire mccain family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from around the world, thank you. of course, yesterday we got word from the family of this american hero, he has decide today stop the medical treatment of his brain cancer he was diagnosed last july, a long-time analyst in the state explained senator mccain s presence this way. he s our senator but he s really a national even an international senator. he s he s almost the united states representative to the rest of the world because he transcends president, because of senate tenure and his foreign policy knowledge and his willingness to engage in those tough issues. also made the point, there s
presidents because of his senate tenure and his foreign policy knowledge and his willingness to engage in those tough issues. barnes also made an interesting point that there s no one alive in arizona politics today that knows what it likes to be in politics what it s like to be in politics without john mccain. something a fellow senator knows all too well. everybody other than john mccain is just called the other senator of arizona. i have grown accustomed to that title. but it is tough to imagine washington without him. and in the senate from my very first day there, i saw that was the conscience of the body. and we are hearing from two of the three amigos as they were informally called on the hill, among mccain s closest friend, former senator lieberman and senator graham, lieberman writing in a statement becoming