Senator and two-time presidential candidate John McCain. Post-convention polls show Mr. Biden maintaining his lead. But at this week’s Republican convention there has been no mention of Mr. McCain, who clashed bitterly with Mr. Trump and Indeed, it’s most likely that Mr. McCain will end up having had more of a tribute at the Democratic convention than at his own party’s. WASHINGTON — Several hundred former aides to President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain announced Thursday that they are endorsing Joe Biden for … Indeed, most of the senior officials from Mr. McCain’s two presidential campaigns are publicly supporting Mr. Biden.“These are unusual times, and this is not an easy decision for Republicans to make,” they conceded in the statement, “but we are heartened by Joe Biden’s history of bipartisanship.”Facebook bans new political ads the week before Election Day. The group endorsement of Mr. Biden is the latest effort from anti-Trump Republicans to lure conservatives and moderates away from the president, who often clashed with the former Arizona senator.WASHINGTON — More than 100 former staff members for Senator John McCain are supporting That motto and “his frequent call on Americans to serve causes greater than our self-interest were not empty slogans like so much of our politics today,” the group of aides, most of them still Republicans, wrote in a joint statement, praising Mr. McCain and implicitly taking aim at The list of signatories includes a range of people — from chiefs of staff in Mr. McCain’s Senate office to junior aides on his campaigns — who worked for him over his 35 years in Congress and during two presidential bids.Mark Salter, Mr. McCain’s longtime chief aide and speechwriter, helped organize the letter.Coinciding with Mr. Trump’s renomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday and the second anniversary of Many of the onetime McCain aides who signed the letter share his hawkish foreign policy views and recoil from Mr. Trump’s “America First” politics, which Mr. Salter called his “coddling of dictators or disinterest in our alliances.”The statement alone is unlikely to affect the presidential race. Over 100 Ex-Staff Members for John McCain Endorse Joe BidenSenator John McCain of Arizona in 2016. Joe Biden heads to Kenosha as President Trump campaigns in Pennsylvania. Following Vietnam, McCain tried both journalism and medical school before moving to acting.McCain married around 1998, but divorced in 2008, having no children.In 2001, Republican Party activists in Northern Virginia tried to recruit McCain to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 8th congressional district against the incumbent Democrat In 2005, McCain was vocal in his reaction to revelations of The Independent (Long Beach, CA) November 27, 1970. Although he had tried to emulate his older brother, father (against his advice), grandfather and forebears, he later said "I just didn't like all the … Joseph Pinckney McCain II (born April 26, 1942) is an American stage actor, newspaper reporter, and brother of the late U.S. "In behalf of POWs, will ask 'doves' to sign petition" (Associated Press, December 31, 1970) as printed in Florence (SC) Morning News, December 31, 1970, page 1 He entered the United States Naval Academy, but left in 1961 during his first year. Joseph Pinckney McCain II was born to John S. McCain, Jr. and Roberta McCain on April 26, 1942 in the naval base hospital in New London, Connecticut. “Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us. Over 100 Ex-Staff Members for John McCain Endorse Joe Biden The group endorsement of Mr. Biden is the latest effort from anti-Trump Republicans to lure … We are fellow Americans, and that’s an association that means more to me than any other.”The statement is also slated to run in The Washington Post on Friday, the morning after Mr. Trump’s acceptance speech.The quadrennial nominating conventions usually offer tributes to party leaders who have died since the last gathering. However, an allied Republican group is hoping to capitalize on it by airing a new television ad in Arizona, “A word to Senator Obama and his supporters,” Mr. McCain said at the time, in words that the group, Republican Voters Against Trump, uses in the ad. Joe Biden and Donald Trump need 270 electoral votes to reach the White House. His father's perpetual traveling for Navy assignments meant that Joe had attended 17 different schools by the time he completed 9th grade. He and Joseph R. Biden Jr. were friends, and Mr. Biden is hoping to put Arizona in the Democratic column for the first time since 1996. His widow, Cindy McCain, participated in a video recounting his friendship with Mr. Biden but did not address the virtual Democratic gathering.It remains unclear how far she’ll go with her support for Mr. Biden, who is hoping to put Arizona in the Democratic column for the first time since 1996.Mr. Try building Will you have enough time to vote by mail in your state? Salter, who led the effort to gather signatures along with the former McCain aides Christian Ferry, Niki Christoff and Joe Donoghue, said they had confined their outreach to staff members, and did not seek out McCain family members.He noted that some former aides had declined to sign because of their current jobs or political obligations, but added that many more were eager to participate. Yes, but it’s risky to procrastinate.