Cindy McCain Tops GOP Betrayal, Joins Team To Prepare Biden for Office

By The Associated Press September 28, 2020 at 12:16pm

Cindy McCain, the widow of Republican Sen. John McCain, will advise Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential transition team as it prepares for him to take office if he wins in November, the team announced Monday.

McCain is the second Republican on the 16-member transition advisory board, joining Bob McDonald, the former Procter & Gamble Co. chief executive who headed the Department of Veterans Affairs under President Barack Obama.

McCain, whose husband was the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, last week endorsed Biden.

My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There’s only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden.

— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) September 22, 2020

As required by law, Biden’s transition team is preparing for a smooth transfer of power should Biden win the presidency.

The teams typically line up candidates for key appointments and prepare to implement policies early in the new president’s administration.

Ted Kaufman, one of five co-chairs of Biden’s transition team, cited McCain’s experience in business and philanthropy and her advocacy for women and children.

“This transition is like no other, preparing amid the backdrop of a global health crisis and struggling economy,” Kaufman, a longtime Biden aide who was appointed to fill his Senate seat when he was elected vice president, said in a statement.

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Biden’s transition team this month signed a lease for office space with Trump’s General Services Administration.

Formal federal support for presidential transition teams was first put into practice in 2012 in an effort to ensure presidential candidates are prepared to assume the White House should they win the election.

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