In Arizona, Vance says McCain wouldn't support Harris if he saw how she's handled southern border

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said on Thursday in Arizona that the late former Sen. John McCain wouldn't support Vice President Kamala Harris if saw the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the southern border today.

“I do not believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today and he sees what’s going on at the American southern border, that he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction she has wrought,” Vance said at a campaign rally in Phoenix. “I really don’t believe that.”

Former President Trump and Vance have made border security a focus of their campaign, criticizing the administration for releasing millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. after apprehending them at the southern border. 

McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, died in 2018 from brain cancer. McCain was an early critic of Trump after he entered the 2016 presidential race. 

He famously casted the vote that killed GOP efforts in the Senate to repeal Obamacare in 2017.