Watch Joe Biden Comfort a Crying Meghan McCain Over Father's Cancer Diagnosis
Since John McCain announced that he was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer earlier this year, many politicians have rallied around the senator from Arizona and wished him a speedy recovery, including Joe Biden. The former vice president knows firsthand how difficult it can be to watch a family member suffer from cancer; his son Beau died in 2015, also from glioblastoma.
During a visit to The View on Wednesday to promote his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad, which centers around Beau’s cancer fight, Biden comforted John’s daughter and View co-host Meghan McCain in a very emotional moment. “I think about Beau almost every day, and I was told that this doesn’t get easier,” McCain said, through tears. Biden then sat beside her, holding her hand to offer her support and words of reassurance. “One of the things that gave Beau courage was John. Your dad took care of my Beau,” said Biden. He continued, “If anyone can make it, your dad [can].” Biden, who has devoted his time since leaving office to aiding cancer research, listed many promising medical discoveries that scientists are testing currently and offered a bit of scientific hope for anyone going through the same devastation as the McCain family.
Biden also touched on the special relationship he has with John McCain. “Her dad is one of my best friends,” he said. “We’re like two brothers who were somehow raised by different fathers or something, because of our points of view.” He even recalled a time that McCain told him to “get the hell off” the ticket in 2008. John McCain reacted to the moment on social media, tweeting a message to the Bidens. “Thank you @JoeBiden & the entire Biden family for serving as an example & source of strength for my own family,” he wrote.
In a confusing and often troubling current political climate, it’s a very rare and personal moment between two families, on opposite sides of the aisle, coming together.
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