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John McCain Receives Award, Mostly Just Democrats Congratulate Him

Ryan Saavedra

Six-term Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) received the Liberty Medal Monday night from former Vice President Joe Biden for his “lifetime of sacrifice and service.” In an overt slam on President Trump, McCain warned in his acceptance speech against “half-baked, spurious nationalism” and hinted that Trump’s policies are “unpatriotic.”

“To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” said McCain.

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