US Senator John Mccain has been diagnosed with brain cancer
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The Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has brain cancer, his office has announced.
McCain entered on July 14 at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix to undergo surgery in which a blood clot was removed from his left eye. During the operation the doctors also detected a brain tumor known as glioblastoma. The Mayo Clinic has announced that the Senator and his family are “reviewing further treatment options that may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation”.
In a statement, Donald Trump has shown his support to the senator calling him “a great fighter”. “Melania and I send our thoughts and prayers to Senator McCain and his entire family” has said Trump. Barack Obama also has support McCain by Twitter: “John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I’ve ever known. Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against. Give it hell, John.”
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John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 20, 2017
Problems to replace ‘Obamacare’
The surgery has prevented McCain from participating in Senate votes and has led to a delay in the vote on the Senate Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also knows as ‘Obamacare’. The absence of McCain would make it more difficult for Republicans to repeal the ACA as they have a narrow 52-48 majority in the Senate. His absence means that two Republican “no” votes can now sink any legislation if all 48 Democrats are unified in opposition.
McCain, who was re-elected for the Senate in 2016, was also the Republican party’s presidential nominee in 2008 but he lose the elections against Obama with 45,65% of the votes. Before becoming a politician, McCain served as an aviator in the US army and was held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years during the Vietnam war.
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