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A heartfelt 2017 exchange between former President Joe Biden and conservative pundit Meghan McCain has resurfaced on social media following news of Biden’s diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
During a live broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” Biden consoled McCain over the diagnosis of her father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), with glioblastoma, the same brain cancer that took the life of Biden’s eldest son, Beau, in 2015.
Biden walked over to McCain, took her hand in his, and told her: “There is hope. And if anybody can make it, your dad [can].”
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Biden described the late GOP senator, who died in August 2018, as “one of my best friends” despite their differences in political opinion.
“Her dad goes after me hammer and tongs. We’re like two brothers who were somehow raised by different fathers or something because of our points of view,” he said.
Biden later talked about having to “have hope” and the necessity to “keep moving” forward with life because treatments and/or cures could be just around the corner.
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“We’re going to beat this damn disease,” he added, “we really are.”
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In an emotional moment, Joe Biden consoles Meghan McCain, whose father was diagnosed with the same cancer as Biden's late son Beau: "There is hope. And if anybody can make it, your dad [can]." pic.twitter.com/5IyS0qAgws
— The View (@TheView) December 13, 2017
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