McCain Announces He Will Run For Re-Election In 2016

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain talks to reporters about an incident earlier when members of an anti-war group approached a witness table where former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madele... Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain talks to reporters about an incident earlier when members of an anti-war group approached a witness table where former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George P. Shultz were testifying, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. The protesters carried signs calling the 91-year-old Kissinger a war criminal, when McCain blurted out, "Get out of here, you low-life scum." As a Navy aviator during the Vietnam War, McCain was shot down during a bombing mission over Hanoi, then imprisoned and tortured by the North Vietnamese for five years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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U.S. Sen. John McCain has announced he will run for re-election in 2016.

The Arizona Republican made the announcement to run for a sixth term on Monday in an interview with NBC News (http://nbcnews.to/1NPIYdU). He is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

McCain uses his position as chairman to criticize President Barack Obama on national security.

“I have never been more concerned about the security of this nation because of the feckless leadership of the president of the United States,” he said.

McCain, 78, will be 80 by Election Day, but he said his Senate career is “just getting started.”

Tea party groups see him as a top challenge in a primary, and conservatives have criticized him as too liberal. He ran for president in 2008.

To win, McCain said he will emphasize issues in Arizona, such as the drought, his work to benefit a copper mine and legislation to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The VA was thrown into turmoil last year amid allegations of misconduct and cover-ups at the VA hospital in Phoenix. Investigators say veterans’ health was jeopardized when employees covered up long wait times for patients.

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  1. To win, McCain will address issues like cutting his own meat and dressing himself…

  2. He thrust Sarah Palin onto the national stage and to this day refuses to admit it was a debacle. That’s all you need to know about his judgment.

  3. He will be running on a platform of “Get off my porch”!

  4. Avatar for henk henk says:

    I know that Robert Byrd was older than McCain but I never got the sense that Byrd was deteriorating mentally, McCain on the other hand…

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