John McCain's Republican granddaughter explains why she's voting for Hillary Clinton


The "fiercely loyal" granddaughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that she will be voting for Hillary Clinton despite identifying as a Republican. Although Caroline McCain confessed she is "nursing a grudge" against Donald Trump after he dismissed McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, for getting "captured," she also firmly laid out how the Republicanism of Trump is not one she is familiar with or supports:
If this is where the party is going — building walls to keep immigrants out, irrationally objecting to international trade, railing against marriage equality, then I'm gone. If this is where the nominee — who was for abortion before it was politically expedient, who is a racist and a misogynist, who wants to carpet bomb the Middle East and ban Muslims, wants to take the party — then I want nothing to do with it. [Medium]
Caroline McCain admitted she has her own issues with Clinton but "learned something important in 2000 and again in 2008: The picture the opposition and the media paints of a candidate is not the whole picture, and it is not the truthful picture."
"So I'm not a Democrat — at least not yet. But this year, I'm With Her," Caroline McCain concluded. Her grandfather, though, might not be too thrilled; John McCain backed Trump in May. Read Caroline's full justification of her decision over at Medium.
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