Cindy McCain Just Made A Surprising Show Of Support At The DNC

When the national spotlight last shone on Cindy McCain, it was after her husband, Republican Senator John McCain passed away from an aggressive brain cancer known as gliboblastoma in 2018 (via WebMD). On Tuesday evening, she returned to the national spotlight again — this time to present a video at the Democratic National Convention.

In a video called "An Unlikely Friendship," Cindy McCain talks about her late husband's friendship with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. "My husband and Vice President Biden enjoyed a 30+ year friendship dating back to before their years serving together in the Senate, so I was honored to accept the invitation from the Biden campaign to participate in a video celebrating their relationship," McCain tweeted, along with a clip from the video, which features both Biden and McCain talking about and sharing images of the decades-long friendship.

It opens with McCain saying, "It was a friendship that shouldn't have worked" (via the Associated Press), but she adds that the friendship didn't waver even when John McCain became a Republican senator and when he and his old friend found themselves on opposing sides. She adds, "Even if a deal seemed out of reach, it was always Joe [Biden] who tried to cross the aisle... [and] for three decades, Joe was able to move his colleagues and find his way forward."