Cindy McCain, John McCain s widow, says it s a badge of honour to be censured by the Arizona GOP for not backing Trump Tom Porter Cindy McCain. Cindy McCain, husband of the late Sen. John McCain, was censured by the Arizona GOP Saturday. The party censured her for globalist beliefs and speaking out against President Trump s attacks on her late husband. Splits between Trump loyalists and Republican critics threaten the party.
Cindy McCain, the widow of Arizona Sen. John McCain, said that it was a high honour to be censured by the Arizona Republican Party for refusing to support President Donald Trump during the election.
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi administers the oath of office to members of the 117th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2021. (Bill Clark/Pool Photo via AP, File)
AP Before they take office, elected US officials swear to uphold the country’s Constitution. But what happens when they are accused of doing the opposite?
As some Republicans in Congress continued to back US President Donald Trump’s doomed effort to overturn the election, critics including President-elect Joe Biden alleged that they had violated their oaths and instead pledged allegiance to Trump.
The oaths, which rarely attract much attention, have become a common subject in the final days of the Trump presidency, being invoked by members of both parties as they met Wednesday to affirm Biden’s win and a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol.
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Unbidden, Gabby Giffords broke into song. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, she began in a clear voice, a broad smile on her face. It is a favorite hymn, one she was shown playing on her French horn in a clip at the Democratic National Convention last summer. That saved a wretch like me.
The former Arizona congresswoman had been talking to USA TODAY about the difficult, momentous year of pandemic and politics, one that ended with the election of her husband, Mark Kelly, to the U.S. Senate seat once held by John McCain.
But she was also talking about the difficult, momentous decade since she was grievously wounded by a gunman at a listening session she was holding outside a Tucson Safeway. On that Saturday morning, six others who had gathered to see her were killed. Their assailant would be sentenced to life in prison.